Affordable SCSI DVD Writers? 16
ByTor-2112 writes: "DVD recorders seem to be ready to break loose on the consumer market, despite the remaining uncertainty about DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM etc. I see ATAPI DVD writers, but I do not warm to IDE/ATA-based technology. When I've got a $10 blank DVD on the line, in SCSI we trust. I have been unable to locate a SCSI DVD writer that falls within the general price range (plus the usual SCSI markup) of the ATAPI burners. Firewire seems nice, but FreeBSD does not support this yet. Anyone seen a drive out there that might fit the bill?" Anyone who can lend hope on the Firewire front is encouraged to speak up here as well.
Pricewatch (Score:3, Informative)
The price ranges for SCSI and ATAPI seem to overlap.
Re:Pricewatch (Score:1)
Why DVD and why BSD? (Score:2, Interesting)
DVD=IDE? (Score:2)
Re:DVD=IDE? (Score:1)
Re:DVD=IDE? (Score:3, Informative)
In any event, I think that this is a moot point. Either they already have a SCSI reader or they will simply use their writer as one. Nor do I think they care if the reader is scsi or not.
Why not IDE DVD-R's? (Score:4, Interesting)
Before that I had a SCSI 1x DVD-R, and it was hell to configure it, what with ASPI and what not. It would easily take me a week to set it up right, but with the A03 it was literally plug it in, install the software, start burning.
Don't dismiss IDE, it has it's advantages and with such a low data transfer, it doesnt make much sense to go SCSI for this.
Re:Why not IDE DVD-R's? (Score:2)
DVD-RAM (Score:1)
If you want to make discs for a DVD player or a normal DVD-ROM drive then your best bet would be to wait for the DVD-RW drives to drop in price. They're about £300-£400 still however.
Re:DVD-RAM (Score:2)
DVD-RAM media comes in two options, Type I and Type II. Apparently, Type II media is removable from its caddy, and can be used as a normal DVD. I've yet to verify this, though, as I only have Type I media. BTW, my Panasonic LF-D101 DVD-RAM is SCSI, and has worked fine for me so far. I, too, would recommend SCSI for this sort of thing. But thinking about it, I'm the sort of person that would recommend SCSI for pretty much everything anyway :-)
¿Firewire = IDE? (Score:1)
Do the drive manufactures actually make Drives with a native firewire interface?
IDE bigotry == Clueless. (Score:1, Informative)
Show me one single part of the SCSI spec that the ATA spec dosent have, that pertains to removable rewritable devices, and could possibly make burning anything more reliable. Yes, people bitch about IDE, but more often than not, its because they have not set up their channels ideally.
SCSI can have exactly the same problems! However I have seen plenty of well-setup SCSI systems, with seperate controllers for disk and for removables, and things work great. Then people complain when they expect ATA to do miracles, because they are too stupid to keep their source and their writer on seperate channels, use crappy cables, use ancient readers or disks, etc. SCSI dosent work too well with your old ST11200N on it, either you know.
Personally, I think a mix of ATA and SCSI is great. I'll keep my high-performance scsi controllers handling the disks. (Except for SCSI tape) ATA controllers are nice because they usually dont take up any slots, are perfectly fine for removables or slow mass-storage, and it keeps the SCSI chain free.
Re:IDE bigotry == Clueless. (Score:1)
Yes, IDE is a coaster factory (Score:1)
You might not want to add an IDE controller if you don't have one, but I don't see any evidence that it makes for a less dependable optical storage transfer medium. But hey, this is slashdot, baseless inflammatory comments are welcome here.
IDE 2 SCSI Converters are your friend (Score:1)