David Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I need to add a CD Writer to my system. Can anyone give me a | recommendation for a very reliable and fast writer (I only need | writeable not re-writeable). I am only interested in a SCSI interface | and would prefer an internal unit.
Well, our company has Yamaha CRW4260t (under Traxdata label) and it has worked fine (no single failed CD). The SCSI controller is Adaptec 2940UW. The downside for your case is that this writer is RW and I guess you'll pay extra for it (that is, you probably get pure CD-R writers for less money). Normal writing speed is 4x (2x for RW) and 6x reading. This is CDDA capable, packet writing capable, can be jumpered to handle Sun sector sizes and what is most important, cdrecord supports it (IIRC, Yamaha loaned/donated some writer and specs for the cdrecord author for development, so this is one reason why I'm supporting this drive). | What software do I need? Is it included in Hamm? You need mkisofs or mkhybrid for creating data images and cdrecord for burning those images. At least mkhybrid and cdrecord are available in hamm. Whatever writer you decide to buy, first _make sure_ cdrecord supports it. You might want to check out these www pages: http://www.guug.de:8080/cgi-bin/winni/lsc.pl http://www.fokus.gmd.de/nthp/employees/schilling/cdrecord.html | I will be using the cd writer for archive backups and also for creating | installation cd-roms for our applications. Do you already have some backup scripts that are able to make backups to CDs? Or are you simply going to use CDs for permanent archiving? I'm asking because I have been thinking about making some scripts for making (incremental) backups to CDs with tar. This is because practically no existing backup software seems to support CDs but instead they practically require tape drive. HTH, //Hannu