Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Thursday 09 November 2000 14:21, Giuseppe Ghibo' wrote:
> | "Brian J. Murrell" wrote:
> | > "What O/S are you running?"
> | > "Uhm, Linux."
> | > "Oh we don't support Linux. Goodbye."
> | > "No wait. It's got nothing to do with the O/S. It's destroying
> | > disks." "But we don't support Linux."
> | > "Linux, Windows, MacOS, it doesn't matter. The drive is physically
> | > destroying disks. It's got nothing to do with the O/S."
> | > "Sorry, we don't support Linux. Goodbye."
> | >
> | > That is why I will NEVER do business with Iomega again. If things
> | > work, great. If not though, you are SOL. That is unacceptable from a
> | > vendor.
> |
> | AFAIK Iomega is distributing beta software for Linux to support
> | their devices. Looks at:
> |
> | ftp://ftp.iomega.com/pub/english/*container*.tgz
> |
> | So it's even no longer true that they do not support Linux... ;-)
>
> It will not help them to recover as company.
> With CD-Recorders at $130 level and probably prices for them dropping below
> $100 next year, I don't see how Iomega can survive.
> (I told Iomega that they will not survive, when was meeting & discussing
> distributorship with them around 3 years ago. They were very arregant.
> Didn't wanted to listen, just: our conditions are:... Minimal order is
> $100K... and so on. We could not agree on that.
> One year later they came back and asked: please! Answer was _ f_ off !
> May be, it will help you a little bit, Brian.)
>
> Just want to ask people who using CD-recorders with Linux.
> What models you have? Any problems/glitches?
> Are CD-RW disks/drives fully supported?
> I am thinking either to assemble PC with internal CD-recorder or to buy
> external for my notebook. I don't need CD-recorder which is not working in
> Linux. :-)
>
> |
> | Bye.
> | Giuseppe
> --
>
> Vadim Plessky
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I had a Phillips 3610 IDE CDBurner. It was a POS. The local Phillips shop
replaced it three times and, each time, after a run of maybe 5 or 10 burns it
would generate coasters regularly. I tried upgrading cdrecord to 1.10a4 (very
interesting comments about Phillips in the documentation there). In the last
couple of weeks it would regularly lock up my machine. In desparation, I
installed windows 98 and tried using the Adaptec software that ships with the
cdwriter to burn CDs; still, lockups. By this time, the warranty had run out
and so, rather than fight it, I bought an HP 9610 CD-RW and have only generated
one coaster out of 40 burns (the coaster was due to a power failure; my next
purchase is a UPS). From my personal experience I recommend staying away from
Phillips as they have some quality control problems and some developer
relations problems. The HP CD writer works very nicely. The Phillips CD
writer is now serving as a paper weight on my desk at home; a task to which it
seems very well suited.
My $.02 worth
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