From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 23 17:29:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65AA637B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:29:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001024002928.WHSG2380.femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:29:28 -0700 Message-ID: <39F4D828.B13E3C64@home.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:30:32 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Raynes Cc: Graham Guttocks , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-RW: SCSI or EIDE/ATAPI? References: <20001023215316.32923.qmail@web10306.mail.yahoo.com> <39F4B611.4BF1F600@dnr.state.ak.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As far as I know, there are no spiffy GUI front ends to burncd. Cdrecord has many. Rob. Brian Raynes wrote: > > Graham Guttocks wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > I'm trying to decide whether the CD-RW drive I buy for my FreeBSD system > > should be SCSI or EIDE. The Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32 CD-RW comes in > > both varieties, with the SCSI costing about $100USD more. > > > > Are there any discernible benefits to SCSI CD-RW drives? Any reasons why > > I shouldn't get the EIDE/ATAPI CD-RW drive? > > If you have a SCSI hard drive, then writing from the HD to the CD-RW > is faster. It's my understanding, as I don't have SCSI anything, that > the SCSI controller allows for a direct write from one SCSI device to > another without the main CPU getting involved. This was not the case > with EIDE, the last I knew. There have been a lot of improvements to > EIDE drives to improve speed and so I do not know if this advantage is > still significant. > > > > > Regards, > > Graham > > > > _____________________________________________________________________________ > > http://clubs.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Clubs > > - Join a club or build your own! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > > Brian Raynes > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message