On Friday 07 September 2001 09:07 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 21:09:14 +1000 Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > > I am in the market for a RW CD for my pc...
>
> ----snip----
>
> > Well I have had 2 different Burners working with Linux over 4 years. The
>
> first was an Actima and
>
> > the others were Sony (8 and 12X)...
>
> If I may add my $0.02 worth here... :')
>
> Sony is a good brand and it may be the brand I buy in the near future. What
> I was
> using, before it died a miserable death, was a Yamaha 4416s. It worked
> flawslessly
> for a number of years, perhaps making thousands of copies of various
> flavors of linux distributions. :') I did at one time own a 6416s that died
> shortly after putting it
> to work... Both were scsi devices. Would I buy another Yamaha? Maybe, but
> it'd have
> to be listed as 100% CDRECORD compatible and priced very cheap.
>
> That said... I'll probably be buying an IDE interface cdrw this time
> around. Something
> that sports the "BURN PROOF TECHNOLOGY" tag... like for instance a TDK
> VELOCD line of drives... TDK sells one that supposedly writes at 40x...
> Wow... If true, it'll
> be alot of fun.
>
> Basic advice would be... if your computer is totally IDE, then go with an
> IDE CDRW
> device on it's own IDE channel. If you're able to use scsi devices, then
> scsi is the
> way to go. Over here, when the 4416s was still alive, I was able to stream
> from a
> Toshiba 40x scsi cdrom drive to the scsi burner at 4x and never made a bad
> copy. All
> the while I was running kde, netscape, you name it...
>
> I've been told that ide writers were good, but I have my doubts if they can
> do that
> kind of activity because of bandwidth limitations, etc . I'll find out for
> certain one of
> these days.
>
> Cheers.
Jerry
I have both yamaha's SCSI & IDE and oth work flawlessly. on Unix Linux
Winderssssssssssssssss< slap for saying that word grin. I like the scsi best
more portable and do not have to work about using up ide slots.
cheers
--
Rick Sivernell
Dallas, Texas 75287
972 306-2296
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Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1
Registered Linux User
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