On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Andy Sy wrote: .. > >But I've felt that psychological difference in > >responsiveness. > > Could be the inverse of the phenomenon Rick was mentioning, > but this time you have to convince yourself that the > mucho extra money you plunked on a SCSI drive was worth it. > :-)
Nahh. I've never bought SCSI drives for myself. .. > I've been using SCSI CD-writers and CD-ROM drives until > lately and they've been nothing but trouble. The extra > circuitry seems to create a new point of failure and > that could be why they conk out early. And with regards > to CD burning, Burn-proof further alleviates the need for > using a SCSI CDR-writer to minimize underruns due to lower > CPU utilization. Nope nope. There IS a huge difference using an ATAPI writer over a SCSI writer. On my personal machine (all ATA), everytime cdrecord needs to fill the buffer, my MP3 playback stutters and the mouse pointer gets "stuck." On a machine with all-SCSI (disk and CD-RW) the overhead of burning a CD-R is imperceptible. And I do NOT imagine those stutters and mouse things. :) --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
