From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Oct 23 14:58:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ABE137B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mat@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA01939; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:58:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:58:08 -0400 From: Mathew KANNER To: Graham Guttocks Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-RW: SCSI or EIDE/ATAPI? Message-ID: <20001023175808.A1885@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <20001023215316.32923.qmail@web10306.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Graham Guttocks's message [CD-RW: SCSI or EIDE/ATAPI?] as of Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:53:16AM +1300 Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [-hackers removed] On Oct 23, 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? Hi, There was a recent discussion on -chat on this very subject recently. The consesus was SCSI but I use IDE with no problems. --Mat > > 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-multimedia" in the body of the message -- Mathew Kanner SOCS McGill University Obtuse quote: He [not me] understands: "This field of perception is void of perception of man." -- The Quintessence of Buddhism To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message