Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:54:45 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: The right way to burn CDs ? Message-ID: <15045.25365.959148.201394@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <68991195@toto.iv>
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Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> types: > No, they can because the ATAPI spec has been modified over the years and > is still not exact, and all devices claiming ATAPI compliance don't > adhere to exactly the same implementation of the ATAPI standard. > > SCSI-2 is much tigher as a standard which is why you don't see these > problems as much, besides it also uncouples the host BIOS from the > peripheral, which removes another point of potential incompatability. As an aside, SCSI-1 wasn't quite so tight, or possibly wasn't followed quite as closely. Trying to move hard disks (not something as esoteric as CD burners) between systems was a hit-or-miss operation. You'd get disks that didn't spin up at all, or systems that would keep restarting the drive while trying to boot, never getting anywhere. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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