On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:49:36PM -0500, Nathan Dorfman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 12:38:07PM -0500, sam@Progressive-Systems.Com wrote:
> > I am in the process of looking for a CD-R or CD-RW recorder to burn
> > CD's using cd-record on NetBSD 1.4.1.  I am not particular whether the
> > interface should be SCSI or IDE.  Usage for this burner will be light;
> > mostly archives and duplication of CDs.  The primary concern is
> > reliability; it only takes a couple of bad burns [pun wholly intended
> > :-)] before confidence in the whole process/recorder/NetBSD/etc. will
> > be shaken.
> 
> If you're going to be using cdrecord, definitely SCSI. I'm not sure if

Since, unlike that in many other operating systems, NetBSD's ATAPI
code is sane, cdrecord "just worked" when standard ATAPI CD-R units
became available, which was quite some time ago.  And it still works
just fine for me today. :-)