DVD Burners
I would like to add a DVD burner to my system. Anyone have recommendations on which ones play nice with FreeBSD? With so many formats I am trying to decide which one will be my best option. Thanks Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burners
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:36 -0500, Sean wrote: I would like to add a DVD burner to my system. Anyone have recommendations on which ones play nice with FreeBSD? With so many formats I am trying to decide which one will be my best option. Thanks Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an LG DVD burner, which has worked perfectly with FreeBSD from the day it was installed. There isn't a model number on the front, but the dmesg output may help identify it. acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B/A300 at ata1-master UDMA33 -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burners
On Friday 17 February 2006 21:05, Mike Jeays wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:36 -0500, Sean wrote: I would like to add a DVD burner to my system. Anyone have recommendations on which ones play nice with FreeBSD? With so many formats I am trying to decide which one will be my best option. Thanks Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an LG DVD burner, which has worked perfectly with FreeBSD from the day it was installed. There isn't a model number on the front, but the dmesg output may help identify it. acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B/A300 at ata1-master UDMA33 Ditto on a similar model. acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B/A104 at ata1-master UDMA33 -- Dave -- Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burners
On Friday 17 February 2006 16:41, dgmm wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 21:05, Mike Jeays wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:36 -0500, Sean wrote: I would like to add a DVD burner to my system. Anyone have recommendations on which ones play nice with FreeBSD? With so many formats I am trying to decide which one will be my best option. Thanks Sean I have an LG DVD burner, which has worked perfectly with FreeBSD from the day it was installed. There isn't a model number on the front, but the dmesg output may help identify it. acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B/A300 at ata1-master UDMA33 Ditto on a similar model. acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B/A104 at ata1-master UDMA33 -- Dave +1 acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B/A105 at ata1-master UDMA33 Works great with k3b and dvdrw-tools. -- FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #7: Sat Feb 11 16:57:40 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A PGP? (updated 16 Nov 05) : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc pgpvAq9tX7HJA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DVD Burners
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:41:54 + dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 21:05, Mike Jeays wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:36 -0500, Sean wrote: I would like to add a DVD burner to my system. Anyone have recommendations on which ones play nice with FreeBSD? With so many formats I am trying to decide which one will be my best option. Thanks Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have an LG DVD burner, which has worked perfectly with FreeBSD from the day it was installed. There isn't a model number on the front, but the dmesg output may help identify it. acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B/A300 at ata1-master UDMA33 Ditto on a similar model. acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B/A104 at ata1-master UDMA33 -- Dave -- Dave I've good luck with Lite-On: acd0: DVDR LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S/BS0C at ata1-master UDMA33 Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Burners
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:46:44 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 16:41, dgmm wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 21:05, Mike Jeays wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:36 -0500, Sean wrote: I would like to add a DVD burner to my system. Anyone have recommendations on which ones play nice with FreeBSD? With so many formats I am trying to decide which one will be my best option. Thanks Sean I have an LG DVD burner, which has worked perfectly with FreeBSD from the day it was installed. There isn't a model number on the front, but the dmesg output may help identify it. acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B/A300 at ata1-master UDMA33 Ditto on a similar model. acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4081B/A104 at ata1-master UDMA33 -- Dave +1 acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B/A105 at ata1-master UDMA33 Works great with k3b and dvdrw-tools. Same here. Works great and I tested it a few weeks ago with actual dual layer media. Burnt a 8G disk just fine as expected with growisofs ! acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B/A103 at ata1-master UDMA33 cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B A103 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 33.000MB/s transfers cd0: cd present [2295104 x 2048 byte records] ---Mike Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED], (http://www.tancsa.com) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...
Hi, Tnx again for your answer! Most of what you need is already in the GENERIC kernel. The rest is a available as modules. IIRC, you have to load the cam.ko module. Just use the ATAPI DVD burner via CAM. AFAICT it's very stable. I haven't burnt a coaster yet. An SCSI DVD burner is bound to be more expensive. Tnx, I'll go for an ATAPI IDE DVD burner then. Sounds like a good option and less troublesome than using a SCSI one. Cheers! Olafo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...
Hi Roland, First off: tnx for your reply! I haven't tried burning DVDs with the ATA driver. The manual page for growisofs says that you should use SCSI devices on OpenBSD and NetBSD, but it doesn't mention FreeBSD. Hmmm, one would guess FreeBSD not to be very different in that respect. Speed is not really a concern for me, but potential data corruption is. I just read something about someone having had issues with an ATA DVD drive, due to digital line-noise on the regular low cost 40-pin ATA cable. Using an 80-pin one apparently solved it. Makes sense. I will use an Adaptec 2200S U320 RAID controller for the harddrives, so perhaps an ATA interface would be easier to configure indepenently of another SCSI device (then again: maybe not). Any advice in that respect? I don't think having CAM in the kernel will make it more difficult. If possible, I'll try to use the generic kernel. AFAIK that covers the 2200S. What I'm wondering about is the following: would it be possible to use the 2200S as a regular controller for a SCSI DVD rewriter, in combination with it running 4 drives in RAID 10 mode? The controller has two U320 channels and allows up to 30 devices to be connected to it. However, I'm not certain that is assuming RAID only set-ups or whether that also allows regular SCSI devices to be attached to it... Does anyone have any experience using such a combination? More generally: does anyone have any experiences in using the 2200S under FreeBSD? Typically enough on Adaptec's site FreeBSD is not mentioned in the list of supported OSes (surprise, surprise...). However, on FreeBSD's list(s) of supported hardware it is mentioned (besides: I currently use the 2100S successfully under FreeBSD 5.2.1, whereas Adaptec's list only mentions the 4.11 version). Can someone perhaps let me know what most closely matches such an interface? The growisofs program from the dvd+rw-tools package is the program that does the actual burning. This is probably what you want. Things like k3b and gcombust et al are just front-ends. Tnx! I'll make sure to do some RTFM-ing on those tools then. Cheers! Olafo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Olaf Greve Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 1:49 AM To: Roland Smith; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller... Hi Roland, First off: tnx for your reply! I haven't tried burning DVDs with the ATA driver. The manual page for growisofs says that you should use SCSI devices on OpenBSD and NetBSD, but it doesn't mention FreeBSD. Hmmm, one would guess FreeBSD not to be very different in that respect. Speed is not really a concern for me, but potential data corruption is. I just read something about someone having had issues with an ATA DVD drive, due to digital line-noise on the regular low cost 40-pin ATA cable. Using an 80-pin one apparently solved it. Makes sense. I will use an Adaptec 2200S U320 RAID controller for the harddrives, so perhaps an ATA interface would be easier to configure indepenently of another SCSI device (then again: maybe not). Any advice in that respect? I don't think having CAM in the kernel will make it more difficult. If possible, I'll try to use the generic kernel. AFAIK that covers the 2200S. What I'm wondering about is the following: would it be possible to use the 2200S as a regular controller for a SCSI DVD rewriter, in combination with it running 4 drives in RAID 10 mode? The controller has two U320 channels and allows up to 30 devices to be connected to it. However, I'm not certain that is assuming RAID only set-ups or whether that also allows regular SCSI devices to be attached to it... Does anyone have any experience using such a combination? Don't do this. Leave only hard disks on the RAID array card. Most RAID cards only want disk drives on the busses anyway. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...
Hi, [...] 2200S. What I'm wondering about is the following: would it be possible to use the 2200S as a regular controller for a SCSI DVD rewriter, in combination with it running 4 drives in RAID 10 mode? The controller has two U320 channels and allows up to 30 devices to be connected to it. However, I'm not certain that is assuming RAID only set-ups or whether that also allows regular SCSI devices to be attached to it... Don't do this. Leave only hard disks on the RAID array card. Most RAID cards only want disk drives on the busses anyway. Tnx, I feared as much...:( Either way: I personally like that separation as well. I have another good Adaptec SCSI controller, but I think it's a bit a pity to 'sacrifice' that just for a DVD burner (it's currently installed in a machine I have specifically set-up as MySQL database stress tester). :P Hmmm, I wonder what good ATA options there are... Otherwise, I guess I'll simply have to add another SCSI controller. Cheers, Olafo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: SCSI DVD burners
Olaf Greve wrote: Hmmm, I wonder what good ATA options there are... Otherwise, I guess I'll simply have to add another SCSI controller. Hello. Sorry for the OT, but where do you find SCSI DVD burners? From which manufacturers/resellers? I never managed to find any and I thought they didn't exist... bye thanks av. P.S. Remove .diespammer if you want to write me directly :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:38:29PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: Either way: I personally like that separation as well. I have another good Adaptec SCSI controller, but I think it's a bit a pity to 'sacrifice' that just for a DVD burner (it's currently installed in a machine I have specifically set-up as MySQL database stress tester). :P Hmmm, I wonder what good ATA options there are... Otherwise, I guess I'll simply have to add another SCSI controller. Most of what you need is already in the GENERIC kernel. The rest is a available as modules. IIRC, you have to load the cam.ko module. Just use the ATAPI DVD burner via CAM. AFAICT it's very stable. I haven't burnt a coaster yet. An SCSI DVD burner is bound to be more expensive. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpdARNLZBzrK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...
On May 27, 2005, at 2:49 AM, Olaf Greve wrote: More generally: does anyone have any experiences in using the 2200S under FreeBSD? Typically enough on Adaptec's site FreeBSD is not mentioned in the list of supported OSes (surprise, surprise...). However, on FreeBSD's list(s) of supported hardware it is mentioned (besides: I currently use the 2100S successfully under FreeBSD 5.2.1, whereas Adaptec's list only mentions the 4.11 version). I have a 2200S under 5.3. Only disks on it though. Check the 2200S bios to see what options there are. I have a vague memory of an option for it to recognize things other than disks. Do a thorough check of your 2200S BIOS for options Chad ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compatible DVD burners for AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4?
Hi, Thanks for your replies! Ronald wrote: Over the years Plextor CD and DVD rewriters have served me well. That's why I chose a PX-712A for my amd64 system. It works flawlessly with cdrecord and growisofs via the CAM SCSI subsystem. Tnx! I'll take a look at that one. Actually you mention something interesting: I hadn't checked out the interface type. Do you know if DVD rewriters would typically be SCSI or ATA? I will use an Adaptec 2200S U320 RAID controller for the harddrives, so perhaps an ATA interface would be easier to configure indepenently of another SCSI device (then again: maybe not). Any advice in that respect? Tony wrote: My understanding is that any burner will show up and give you a block device, rather it's the authoring software that has the burden to recognize the burner for what it really is, and make full use of it. That said, what authoring software are you intending to use? I've had lots of luck in the past using K3B. Are you going old sk00l and using mkisofs? ;) It'll be the first time I'll be using a DVD burner under FreeBSD, so I still do not know which software best to use. The intended use for it is to have my (cron scheduled) back-up script write the back-up to DVD periodically (as well as being able to do this manually). I do not intend to put KDE/Gnome on the machine, so as far as I'm concerned no fancy interfaces are required. In fact: I'd rather have a text based interface, e.g. like sysinstall. Can someone perhaps let me know what most closely matches such an interface? Tnx and cheers, Olafo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compatible DVD burners for AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4?
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:26:01AM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: snip Actually you mention something interesting: I hadn't checked out the interface type. Do you know if DVD rewriters would typically be SCSI or ATA? I haven't tried burning DVDs with the ATA driver. The manual page for growisofs says that you should use SCSI devices on OpenBSD and NetBSD, but it doesn't mention FreeBSD. I will use an Adaptec 2200S U320 RAID controller for the harddrives, so perhaps an ATA interface would be easier to configure indepenently of another SCSI device (then again: maybe not). Any advice in that respect? I don't think having CAM in the kernel will make it more difficult. snip It'll be the first time I'll be using a DVD burner under FreeBSD, so I still do not know which software best to use. The intended use for it is to have my (cron scheduled) back-up script write the back-up to DVD periodically (as well as being able to do this manually). I do not intend to put KDE/Gnome on the machine, so as far as I'm concerned no fancy interfaces are required. In fact: I'd rather have a text based interface, e.g. like sysinstall. Can someone perhaps let me know what most closely matches such an interface? The growisofs program from the dvd+rw-tools package is the program that does the actual burning. This is probably what you want. Things like k3b and gcombust et al are just front-ends. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpHqJcKNV8Nc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Compatible DVD burners for AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4?
Hi, Within a few weeks I will be aquiring a new server, and it will most likely feature a 64-bit AMD processor. One of the (hardware-wise) things I need to solve before being able to actually get it, is which DVD burner (for back-ups, etc.) I can best install in it. From the FreeBSD 5.4 AMD-64 hardware compatibility list, I seem to gather the following drive may be a good candidate: Logitec LDR-H443U2 DVD-RAM/-R/+R/-RW/+RW drive Does anyone have any experience with this particular combination and/or can anyone perhaps recommend me some other good alternatives for the AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4? Thanks in advance, and cheers! Olafo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compatible DVD burners for AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4?
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:29:56PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: snip One of the (hardware-wise) things I need to solve before being able to actually get it, is which DVD burner (for back-ups, etc.) I can best install in it. snip Does anyone have any experience with this particular combination and/or can anyone perhaps recommend me some other good alternatives for the AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4? Over the years Plextor CD and DVD rewriters have served me well. That's why I chose a PX-712A for my amd64 system. It works flawlessly with cdrecord and growisofs via the CAM SCSI subsystem. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt pgpIuDoxlMTYj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Compatible DVD burners for AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4?
My understanding is that any burner will show up and give you a block device, rather it's the authoring software that has the burden to recognize the burner for what it really is, and make full use of it. That said, what authoring software are you intending to use? I've had lots of luck in the past using K3B. Are you going old sk00l and using mkisofs? ;) Tony On Wed, 25 May 2005, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, Within a few weeks I will be aquiring a new server, and it will most likely feature a 64-bit AMD processor. One of the (hardware-wise) things I need to solve before being able to actually get it, is which DVD burner (for back-ups, etc.) I can best install in it. From the FreeBSD 5.4 AMD-64 hardware compatibility list, I seem to gather the following drive may be a good candidate: Logitec LDR-H443U2 DVD-RAM/-R/+R/-RW/+RW drive Does anyone have any experience with this particular combination and/or can anyone perhaps recommend me some other good alternatives for the AMD-64 version of FreeBSD 5.4? Thanks in advance, and cheers! Olafo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DVD burners
I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new double-layer type. Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid? My computer is a 700 MHz P3 coppermine with 512 Mbytes of PC100 ram, is it going to be fast enough? TIA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD burners
R. W. wrote: I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new double-layer type. Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid? Your mileage may vary. Consider: http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/hcn.html My computer is a 700 MHz P3 coppermine with 512 Mbytes of PC100 ram, is it going to be fast enough? Sure. Oh, it's possible you can run into problems with your ATA cabling or the controller, but if you've got decent hardware you should be fine. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD burners
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:30:05 + R. W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new double-layer type. Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid? I have a Plextor PX-708 that is working perfectly on a 5.3-STABLE, but it's not double-layer. My computer is a 700 MHz P3 coppermine with 512 Mbytes of PC100 ram, is it going to be fast enough? All you need is atapi_dma turned on. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD burners
I highly recommend the Pioneer dvr-108 http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=27-129 -156DEPA=1 I have 2, one in my mac (which is a 107D) and dvr-108 in a freebsd box and both have been wonderful, I have also had a NEC 1000a which died 3months after I bought it. Cheers, Michael On Oct 31, 2004, at 12:30 PM, R. W. wrote: I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new double-layer type. Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid? My computer is a 700 MHz P3 coppermine with 512 Mbytes of PC100 ram, is it going to be fast enough? TIA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Support for the new multi-layer DVD burners?
I'm currently running 5-CURRENT but I'm heading for 5-STABLE. I've noticed the new DVD burners that support multi-layer (at least that is what today's Best Buy ad calls them) DVDs. Since it doubles the capacity, and my first application would be to back machines up, I've been watching the mailing lists since I first became aware of them. I'm leaning towards a USB or Firewire connected external unit (again to move the device from machine to machine for backup) but I have not seen anything on FreeBSD support for the devices. I searched the mailing list archives but could not find anything. Can someone clue me in on these devices and FreeBSD support for both internal and external drives? TIA... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATA66 compatible CD/DVD burners
Hi, Can anyone recommend CD or DVD burners that are at least ATA66 compatible? I'm not too keen on the idea of a burner dragging down my ATA133 60GB drive to ATA33, yet these are all I can cu- rrently find on the market. Regards, Trent. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ATA66 compatible CD/DVD burners
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:08, Trent Nelson wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend CD or DVD burners that are at least ATA66 compatible? I'm not too keen on the idea of a burner dragging down my ATA133 60GB drive to ATA33, yet these are all I can cu- rrently find on the market. There are none currently. The solution is to use your secondary IDE channel for your optical drives, your Primary IDE channel for your boot drive and a secondary controller (They're dirt cheap, like $25) for any other drives. Keeping your Hard drives at 1/channel improves performance, since IDE doesn't handle multiple units/channel well. And this way you keep any optical drives on a single channel, so they don't drag the speed down for your other drives. Personally, I run with this set up on my main desktop: IDE0(ATA66): 1 ATA/33 HDD (Drive only supports ATA33, boot drive) IDE1(ATA66): 1 8x CD-RW, 1 36x CD-ROM IDE2 (ATA100): 1 ATA100 HDD (Data+ XP Swap) Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ATA66 compatible CD/DVD burners
There are none currently. The solution is to use your secondary IDE channel for your optical drives, your Primary IDE channel for your boot drive and a secondary controller (They're dirt cheap, like $25) for any other drives. Keeping your Hard drives at 1/channel improves performance, since IDE doesn't handle multiple units/channel well. And this way you keep any optical drives on a single channel, so they don't drag the speed down for your other drives. Personally, I run with this set up on my main desktop: IDE0(ATA66): 1 ATA/33 HDD (Drive only supports ATA33, boot drive) IDE1(ATA66): 1 8x CD-RW, 1 36x CD-ROM IDE2 (ATA100): 1 ATA100 HDD (Data+ XP Swap) Actually, this isn't true though. My dvd drive (Lite-on generic brand) is ATA 66. I don't know which burners are ata 66 though, my tdk 48x burner is still ata 33 so it drags my ata66 dvd drive down to ata 33. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
