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Date:      Sun, 02 Aug 1998 21:54:44 -0400
From:      Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com>
To:        Benedikt Stockebrand <benedikt@devnull.ruhr.de>
Cc:        Andrew Bromage <bromage@queens.unimelb.edu.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   IDE CD-R on stable (was Re: CD writers as a backup medium)
Message-ID:  <35C51864.1233FFDC@kew.com>
References:  <199807311940.MAA11663@hub.freebsd.org> <199808010247.WAA05287@pobox.ids.net> <19980801180401.24027@queens.unimelb.edu.au> <874svxm0rl.fsf@devnull.ruhr.de>

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Benedikt Stockebrand wrote:
> 
> Andrew Bromage <bromage@queens.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> 
> > Just wondered if anyone had thoughts on using a CD writer with
> > FreeBSD-stable as a backup medium.
> 
> Writing a CD-ROM on a machine that is doing other things as well is
> bound to cause trouble.  Your backups will be plain unreliable.

Ummm, semi-related question, are ONLY the SCSI CD-ROM burners supported?  I
happen to have ended up with my HP IDE CD-R burner on my FreeBSD box (with
room for Windows if I have to boot back to it to burn CD-R's.)

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                                   Telephone:  617-279-9812

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