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On Saturday 28 August 2004 08:25 am, Robert Huff wrote:
> 	One of my (SCSI) CD-ROM drives is dieing; to replace it, I was
> thinking of getting something that handles DVDs as well.
> 	Is anybody doing this (that's a pro forma question) and what
> advice do you have?
>
> 				Robert Huff

I use the SONY DVD RW DRU-500A, which is an IDE DVD+/-RW DVD writer.  It 
works great!

FYI:  The FreeBSD kernel needs to be compiled with atapicam for DVD 
burning using dvd+rw-tools.

For more information, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1258438+1261486+/usr/local/www/db/text/2004/freebsd-questions/20040118.freebsd-questions

Andrew Gould