I have been looking at two SCSIDE converters, both are around the same price of $100. One is the IDSC21-E from IO Data (http://www.iodata.com/products/idsc/idsc21e/IDSC21-E.htm) and the other is the ARS-2000UB Bridge Smart from ACARD Technologies (http://www.acard.com). The acard product is actually a complete external drive bay that does the conversion while the IO Data product is just an adapter you plug into the back of the drive. The IDE/SCSI software emulation probably won't work for me due to the heavy load I am putting on my IDE hard drive and bus. I am afraid if I used it the failure rate of the DVD-R burns would increase dramatically. My load consists during the DVD-R burn consists of simultaneously FTPing another 4.7 GB for my next DVD-R disc, creating the 4.7 GB ISO file for the next burn from this FTP'd data as well as creating seven 670 MB ISO files of the same data to burn to CD-R, and of course the actual burning of 4.7 GB to DVD-R and 4.7 GB across seven CD-R drives (all SCSI). Surprinsingly this is all running fine just fine on a Dell Dimension 4100 desktop PC with a Quantum Fireball IDE hard drive. My failure rate is probable about 1 in 50 right now if not better. Hopefully you can see why I would be hesitant to adding more load the hard drive.
--- Len Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:25:02AM -0700, Brian > Sullivan wrote: > > 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)? > > I know the ATAPI drive works fine with ide-scsi > drivers in linux. > I believe pioneer has states that a scsi version is > cokming soon (or may > already exist), but most places probably don't carry > the scsi version > (at least not in stock). Of course as you probably > know the A03 can only > wrote to general media, not authoring media, but for > your purposes that > is fine. > > As for the ide/scsi convertor, I have no idea, given > I haven't even > heard of such a device before. > > Len Sorensen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
