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Date:      Sun, 22 Apr 2001 16:56:11 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Duplicating Audio CDs 
Message-ID:  <200104222156.f3MLuB334461@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>  of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:35:13 PDT." <00b801c0caee$00f41fc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> 

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"Ted Mittelstaedt" writes:
> I myself thought about writing an emulation layer for about 20 microseconds
> once.  I decided that my time was worth enough that I could spend the extra
> $100 bucks on a SCSI burner, rather than the 200 hours or so it would take
> me to do a project like this.  Also, by spending the $100 bucks I was
> guarenteed
> to have a solution that worked - whereas if I attempted to write one then
> I had no guarentee that I could ever produce a working piece of code.

Bought a Sony ATAPI 12/8/32 CD-RW late last year. Pretty happy with it.
So I later purchased another ATAPI, a Philips 8/4/32, which sucked. The
Sony's were pretty pricy, and I had cashed in on one $50 rebate already.
So in replacement of the Philips ended up with a SCSI HP 9150i 8/4/32
for $140 while comparable HP ATAPI 9350 10/4/32's were $150 locally.

Already had the SCSI card (a Symbios '875 purchased several years ago
for under $60) so the delta was more like $20 over the Philips price.


--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.



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