As far as General Media goes this what I want. From my understanding Authoring media is only needed if CCS encrypted video is to be put on the disc. Since I am just using the disc for the archival of data files from linux servers I don't really need Authoring quality, General should do just fine. Authoring drives such as the S201 cost around $4000 to $5000 compared to the sub $1000 price on the general media drives. The media cost also is drastically different with Authoring coming in around $15 and General at under $10. From my understanding it would appear that the only difference between the two besides cost is you can't copy movies on to General media. Both should play in almost all DVD-ROM drives abd their life-spans similiar (supposedly rated at 100+ years but as far as I know DVDs haven't been around 100 years so how they know this boggles my mind). Anyone hear anything different than this?
--- Len Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:25:02AM -0700, Brian > Sullivan wrote: > > I have been using the Pioneer S201 DVD-R drive > with > > the cdrecord (pro) software. To date, the drive > and > > the software have performed flawlessly. I am using > the > > drive and cdrecord for the long term archival of > data > > files on my linux servers, I am just making a big > ISO > > file with mkisofs and burning it with cdrecord. As > I > > am just using the DVD-R drive for the storage of a > > normal linux file system I don't need to be using > the > > DVD-R Authoring media which is much more expensive > > than the DVD-R General media (about $15 a disc > > compared to under $10). Since I will be archiving > > literally thousands and thousands of discs the > cost > > savings of switch media is huge. The problem is > that > > the S201 drive only supports Authoring media. > > Pioneer's new DVD-R A03 (~$700) drive supports > General > > media but this is an ATAPI interface drive, not > SCSI > > like the S201. So my idea was to try an IDE to > SCSI > > converter (SCSIDE) on the A03. Has anyone done > this > > successfully with a drive and cdrecord? Does > anyone > > see any potential problems with this solution (or > have > > a different one)? > > I know the ATAPI drive works fine with ide-scsi > drivers in linux. > I believe pioneer has states that a scsi version is > cokming soon (or may > already exist), but most places probably don't carry > the scsi version > (at least not in stock). Of course as you probably > know the A03 can only > wrote to general media, not authoring media, but for > your purposes that > is fine. > > As for the ide/scsi convertor, I have no idea, given > I haven't even > heard of such a device before. > > Len Sorensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
