From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 23 17:37:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.103.136.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA3D337B4D7 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9667 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Oct 2000 00:37:38 -0000 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:37:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber To: Rob Cc: Brian Raynes , Graham Guttocks , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-RW: SCSI or EIDE/ATAPI? In-Reply-To: <39F4D828.B13E3C64@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Rob wrote: > As far as I know, there are no spiffy GUI front ends to burncd. > Cdrecord has many. gcombust it's in the ports. Vince. > > 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 > -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com http://www.pop4.net 128K ISDN from $22.00/mo - 56K Dialup from $16.00/mo at Pop4 Networking Online Campground Directory http://www.camping-usa.com Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message