From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 2 18:55:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10343 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 18:55:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kendra.ne.mediaone.net (kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.94.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10312 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 18:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from software@kew.com) Received: from ffactory.uucp.kew.com (ffactory.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.131]) by kendra.ne.mediaone.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id VAA03626; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 21:54:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kew.com by ffactory.uucp.kew.com (UUPC/extended 1.13c) with UUCP for multiple addressees; Sun, 02 Aug 1998 21:54:45 -0500 Received: from kew.com by ffactory.uucp.kew.com (UUPC/extended 1.13c) with ESMTP for multiple addresses; Sun, 02 Aug 1998 21:54:44 -0500 Message-ID: <35C51864.1233FFDC@kew.com> Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 21:54:44 -0400 From: Drew Derbyshire Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham, MA 02180 (http://www.kew.com) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benedikt Stockebrand CC: Andrew Bromage , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IDE CD-R on stable (was Re: CD writers as a backup medium) References: <199807311940.MAA11663@hub.freebsd.org> <199808010247.WAA05287@pobox.ids.net> <19980801180401.24027@queens.unimelb.edu.au> <874svxm0rl.fsf@devnull.ruhr.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Benedikt Stockebrand wrote: > > Andrew Bromage writes: > > > Just wondered if anyone had thoughts on using a CD writer with > > FreeBSD-stable as a backup medium. > > Writing a CD-ROM on a machine that is doing other things as well is > bound to cause trouble. Your backups will be plain unreliable. Ummm, semi-related question, are ONLY the SCSI CD-ROM burners supported? I happen to have ended up with my HP IDE CD-R burner on my FreeBSD box (with room for Windows if I have to boot back to it to burn CD-R's.) -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 "Nuke the users and let $VK0 sort them out" -ahd-, misquoted To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message