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From: Rob <europax@home.com>
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To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
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Subject: Re: CD-RW: SCSI or EIDE/ATAPI?
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Thanks, I'll try it out.

Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> 
> 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
> > > >
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