I have been using the Pioneer S201 DVD-R drive with the cdrecord (pro) software. To date, the drive and the software have performed flawlessly. I am using the drive and cdrecord for the long term archival of data files on my linux servers, I am just making a big ISO file with mkisofs and burning it with cdrecord. As I am just using the DVD-R drive for the storage of a normal linux file system I don't need to be using the DVD-R Authoring media which is much more expensive than the DVD-R General media (about $15 a disc compared to under $10). Since I will be archiving literally thousands and thousands of discs the cost savings of switch media is huge. The problem is that the S201 drive only supports Authoring media. Pioneer's new DVD-R A03 (~$700) drive supports General media but this is an ATAPI interface drive, not SCSI like the S201. So my idea was to try an IDE to SCSI converter (SCSIDE) on the A03. Has anyone done this successfully with a drive and cdrecord? Does anyone see any potential problems with this solution (or have a different one)?
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