From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 29 15:35:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14132 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:35:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14124 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-167.laker.net [208.0.233.67]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id SAA32684; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:34:25 -0500 Message-Id: <199810292334.SAA32684@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Paul T. Root" , "Questions FreeBSD" Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:22:51 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: which CD-R to get Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:32:04 -0600 (CST), Paul T. Root wrote: >Well, > My Yamaha CDR400tx has died. I hear something that >sounds like a bearing and nothing will mount. So, the boss >says, it's not worth fixing, buy a new one. > > Since, I never got it working with FreeBSD, I thought >I'd ask: What does work? Fastest, coolest, newest, whatever. >Do I want RW? Jordan's picks look a little old in this regard. RW media is STILL too damn expensive and WAY too much trouble. You have to erase the whole stinking thing and start over. I'd only buy a SCSI interfaced unit though. When we throw these AT-clones out in a couple years, you don't want to throw away all your drives!! Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message