On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 17:21:21 +1030 (CST) David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi, > > I'm thinking of buying a cd writer. > > The howto suggests that most ide drives should work fine with Linux. > > But I was just wondering what modals people have had good results with > and > more importantly if there are any to avoid. I have recently installed a CDRW drive on my machine. I chose a Philips CDRW800, a 4x 8x 32x drive. It is IDE and Linux needs to see CDR drives as SCSI - so a little configuring of the kernel and a couple of lines in /etc/lilo.conf was all it took. I now have both my CD-ROM and CDRW drives recognised as SCSI and the Linux software (especially XCDRoast) works very well indeed. As long as you are OK compiling a kernel you should have no problem at all with an IDE drive. Does anyone know of any software for Linux like Adaptec's which allows you to to use a CDRW disk as if it were a hard drive? ie. being able to add and remove data at will? -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000