On Sunday 05 August 2001 01:22 pm, you wrote:
> --- Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As some on you may know, I'm in the market for a new CDRW drive. My
> > old an
> > trusted Yamaha 4416s finally turned belly up and... I'm looking. The
> > one thing
> > I noticed while surfing for a good deal, IDE drives far outnumber scsi
> > and
> > quite frankly, they're cheap as hell when compared to their scsi
> > counterparts.
> > Since I'm nearly 100% scsi here... I'm a bit confused what to do...
> > I've never
> > had the IDE CDRW experience and so I here asking:
> >
> > Is anyone here using an IDE cdrw? I'm curious how well it's working
> > and if you
> > would recommend your particular model.
>
> The same one that you had. I have an IDE Yamaha 4-8-24 burner that has
> worked flawlessly under Linux. In all honesty, i've never even tried
> using it under windoze.
>
> > My main area of concern is being able to do "on-the-fly" cdr
> > generation, like I
> > was able to do with my old scsi drive...
>
> I'm not sure that "on-the-fly" means, but that sounds like more of a
> software feature than a hardware feature. At any rate, begin & end your
> search at www.pricewatch.com. Other than the random times when
> somewhere like Best-Buy is selling a burner for well below cost just to
> draw you into the store, you'll *ALWAYS* find the lowest prices at
> pricewatch. Its where i buy all of my hardware.
>
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> Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Linux FAQ & Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com
>
> .
Jerry
I have the same IDE cdrw that Lonnie has and it works very nicely under
both OSs. I have the same only scsi for other linux box & solaris box. It is
external though. All work great, I like the yammahas.
Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas 75287
972 306-2296
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1
Registered Linux User
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