On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Nicholas Holifield wrote:
> given me a bad burn. As long as you don't mind putting in some time on
> the software side, and you feel like you can save some money on a good
> brand IDE drive, then it's a viable option. Just make sure you get a
> CD-R with a big buffer (>=2MB), as this is what really affects burn
> reliability, assuming you're using decent media.
One question I've never seen answered is how much better off SCSI
burners are on a system under load. When you've got big drives spewing
tens of megs across the buses from swapping, compiling, and working, SCSI
shouldn't have the slightest problem (although your hard disk could become
a problem). How easy/common is it to monopolize the IDE bus and starve the
burner?
-Alex
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