From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 3 17: 6:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.rcn.com (146-115-58-158.c4-0.wtr-ubr1.sbo-wtr.ma.cable.rcn.com [146.115.58.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F88E37B422 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 17:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bein@localhost) by smtp.rcn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA24902; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 20:08:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: 3 Sep 2000 19:52:47 EDT From: David Bein Reply-To: bein@world.std.com Subject: CD Burner Advice Needed for 3.2 IDE system To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <968025167/bein@smtp.rcn.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi ... I am about ready to plunk down the money for a CD burner. I am wondering if others have a lot of experience using 3.2 with ATAPI based CD burners and if there are any drives which are specifically recommended. I have heard good things about the Yamaha SCSI drives, but as of this moment I do not have support for SCSI in my 3.2 box. I have an older 2.2.8 box which does have SCSI, but I am not inclined to upgrade the older 2.2.8 box and I am under the impression that none of this stuff works well pre-CAM anyway. So I am wondering if the non-SCSI cd burners are worth the trouble or should I just plunk down the extra money for a SCSI adapter [2940UW probably] and get the Yamaha? Is there anything special I need to do to the 3.2 release besides the following [recommended in cdrecord 1.8 README.FreeBSD]: options "P1003_1B" options "_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING" options "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L" Note that I am not planning to upgrade the 3.2 machine in any major ways because I am about ready to get a new PC and stick 4.0/4.1 on it. I want to use my 3.2 box as a backup slave (among other tasks). Thanks very much in advance. --David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message