Quoting Andy Sy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I've been using SCSI CD-writers and CD-ROM drives until lately and > they've been nothing but trouble. The extra circuitry seems to create > a new point of failure and that could be why they conk out early.
Could be that either you buy only crummy CDR/CD-ROM drives, or you give them inadequate ventilation. CDRs in particular generate lots of heat, because of the burn laser. (MTBF is much lower on CDRs than on CD-ROMs, mostly because of the heat.) I've found Plextor, Yamaha, and Toshiba drives to be good. The SCSI ones are much less prone to buffer underruns. You seem to hear about the latter only from ATAPI-drive owners. Also, the latter can, when the SCSI-emulation driver has problems, cause the entire kernel to seize up, to my amazement. > Okay, so in a two-drive config, SCSI offers too few advantages. More than enough for me. You get hotfix at the hardware level, genuine low-level reformatting, and a stable, well-thought-out bus standard, for starters. -- Cheers, There are only 10 types of people in this world -- Rick Moen those who understand binary arithmetic and those who don't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
