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From: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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Subject: Re: cd writer recommendation?
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At Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:47:42 -0700 (PDT),
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> 
>     One thing www.buy.com is really good for, even if you don't buy from them,
>     is to get pricing information on a general search.  You can then use it
>     to do comparison shopping.
> 
> 	http://www.buy.com/
> 	click on "comp"
> 	Search for "rewritable"
> 
>     And there you have it.  The smart-and-friendly lists for $460 (yowzer!).
>     The older Yahama models (SCSI) list for $325.   The lowest cost one
>     appears to be the HP or Yamaha IDE versions for $200, too bad FreeBSD
>     can't use it under IDE (but personally I think SCSI is the only way to
>     go).  Hmm.  Plexor lists a SCSI one for $268 but I dunno if it works.
>     Hi-Val lists a SCSI one ofr $282.  Again, dunno if it works.
> 
> 
> 						-Matt

For backup, I bought DVD-RAM drive for $400.
5.2GB(double side) media is around $35, you can use them as 2.3GB x 2
disks.

Enabling raw-write in scsi_cd.c, you can newfs/mount DVD-RAM as UFS.
Write speed is around 500KB/s, and read speed is around 1.4MB/s.

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