Phil wrote: > > At long last I have made a move to buy a CD R/W drive. A local store sells a > Cyber Drive that is affordable. It is an IDE device and according to the box, > and Cyber Drive's web site, it Linux compatible. > > I was wondering if anyone knows of any issues that I should be aware of?
Do a test: Ynder Linux, write a CR-RW from an image file using cdrecord directly, then do an md5sum on both the image file and the device (/dev/scd0?). You cannot do this under Windows because the Windows md5sum has no ability to operate at the device level. If they match, you are in luck. If the device check always ends in a read error, don't buy it. Recent changes to the CD writer firmware across all manufacturers have implemented a read-ahead feature that errors at the last sector as it tries to read ahead past the end of data. Stupid, eh? I have been through 4 drives from different manufacturers all of which showed this problem. Older drives are OK. -- Ron. [au]
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