The fact is most of the CD Burners stem from about 4 or 5 main manufactures. Most "CLAIM" to make the CD Burner, but a close look at the Firmware will show this to be a lie... I know the three big ones are Yamaha, Lite On, and HP. I personally have had great luck with Yamaha, and Lite On, and my current HP is at best just Ok. To date, the majority of the 24X Burners are all made by Light On, but be careful, most media is only tested up to 16X. The key thing to look for is BurnProof, or SMART-burn technology. As for IDE vs SCSI, this argument could go on for years with no answer, I have both and both work great. I recommend IDE to anyone the hates trouble shooting hardware problems, because SCSI will give you hardware problems....
Paul Moore "Got Hardware???" ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 10:16 PM Subject: Re: CD-RW advice > I would think that most any of them would work. You may have to do a > kernel recompile to enable ide=scsi and set it up in lilo or grub. But > the main thing about getting a new CDRW is to check the buffer size. > Most of the drives have a 2 or 4 MB buffer size. Some have an 8MB or > larger. The Larger the buffer the better. Helps prevent coasters and the > larger buffered CDRW's seem to burn faster. > > Ray > > On 18 Feb 2002, at 19:50, Tim Wunder wrote: > > > I know... this has been hashed out before, but technology changes. I need > > to replace my old Yamaha SCSI CD-RW with a new one, probably IDE (once I > > straighten out my filesystem and get rid of the 2.4GB drive). I mosied > > over to my local Best Buy here in Baltimore, and have these fine choices: > > Digital Research Technologies: 24x, $100 Samsung: 24x, $110 Buslink: 24x, > > $100 LG Int'l: 12x, $130 (24x, $180??) Acer: 24x, $130 > > > > None, except the LG Int'l (slackware), say they support linux. > > All speeds referenced are Write speeds. > > > > Anybody have any opinions on these brands? > > > > Thanks, > > Tim > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list - > > http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe > > info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > > > Ray & Nancy Plummer > Copper, Elektra & WOK > http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
