On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 00:38, Andre Pang wrote: > I was specifically looking for a CD burner for my laptop a few > days ago, and I came across the Acer CRW 8824MM a few days ago: > > >http://mall.eyo.com.au/cgi-bin/shop/eyo/showall.tam?pagenumber%2Eptx=1&category%2Ectx=Recordable%20%28CDR%29 > > The good: It has interfaces to USB, PCMCIA and Firewire. The > bad: No mention of Linux support. I'm getting one soon, so I'll > let you know how it goes if you're interested. (I'll end up > using the PCMCIA interface, and maybe the USB interface just to > test it.) >
That one sounds pretty good, but it you're looking just for a firewire interface you could do worse than getting the setup I just brought. Its a 5 1/4" Firewire housing which can take any IDE device. Its $130 + whatever device you want to put into it. The advantage I saw was that I could upgrade the burner to a DVD-RAM etc when I get one. Plus when I want to do ad-hoc data archives I can just dump them on a hard disk via firewire. I got mine from CX in the city. They do a USB version too - but I couldn't get that working and since I upgrade the laptop to a vaio thought I may as well get a firewire version. I've burned happily at 24x (at least 10 cd's with no coasters). If you want any info about it, let me know. Greeno -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996 Mobile : +61-(0)4-2521-9996 GnuPG Key : 1024D/B5657C8B Key fingerprint = 9ED8 59CC C161 B857 462E 51E6 7DFB 465B B565 7C8B -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
