Hi, Stan: what do you mean by "...drivers are established for linux..."? David Charles On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stan Lockaby wrote: > On Tuesday 11 September 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote: > > really? hmmm. i'll have to check on those then. i had a philips but it > > died. it was an older model and a SCSI, but worked real good, until death > > that is. and i saw that some other sony model numbers close to the 160 > > worked (they are on the mdk list) so i was going from that point. i will > > check out the plextor and yamaha options. thanks Tom, and to others who > > have replied to me on this topic. > > > > adrian > > > I am set up with a dual boot - Windoze98, and LM8. I just installed a Plextor > 12/10/32 over the weekend. I bought this drive base on input from several > people knowledgeable in unix, linux, and windoze. I can tell you that it is a > very good, solid drive. I have it set up under W98, but the drivers are > established for linux, and I'll tackle the setup in Mandrake in the next few > days. Being a recovering windowsaholic, this may or may not go well. I still > know very little about linux, and the learning curve is steep for me, but I'm > convinced it is a far superior OS, and I will do what it takes to rid myself > and my family of the dreaded windows virus. Anyway, my point being that if > the setup of the plextor goes well, I will post results... if not, I will > post many questions. And not to make light of the current situation here, but > while we are all praying, thank God for this list. > Peace, > Stan > >
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