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Yuri Grebenkin [Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:36:33AM +0300]:
> Please give me a suggestion what brand or model to buy.
> What CD-RW can be used under FreeBSD without problems?

I never had trouble with:

	acd0: CD-RW <HL-DT-ST GCE-8481B> at ata1-master PIO4

That's LG's 48/24/48 IDE CD-RW writer. Never damaged a CD during burn. I use
it for about 1.5 year.

> I use nVidia video card and really can't get it work properly 'cause of 
> broken drivers from nvidia.com I think. So I want to be sure.

Also, I never had trouble with 

	pci1: <ATI model 5961 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
	
That's ATI RadeOn 9200, which does wonderful hardware OpenGL with XFree86
4.3.0 drivers (no need to download binary & buggy drivers!). I use it for
about 3 months and I don't want never ever to use NVidia cards. ATI is
simply better, when you do some hw opengl on Unix.

> And another little question. What is better to have both CD-RW and HDD on 
> one ata0 (master and slave) or HDD on ata0 and CD-RW on ata1? What gives 
> best performance? I think that best one is when they are on different, 
> bacause it become possible to only read via one and only write via other 
> while copying data. Is it that way?

Many people told me, that it is the best to have them on separate channels,
if this is possible.