On Friday 22 April 2005 01:53, Robert G. Hays wrote: > 'One Last Word (!)' > I forgot to mention, and nobody else has either -- certain writers (& > readers!) work best with media-brand-X & poorly or not at all with > media-brand-Y; AFAIK, this applies to all brands, although it is not > *quite* as bad as it was a few years ago, so that fact probably accounts > for some of the variagated [sp?] results you've gotten here -- try > several brands of media *real* *fast*, and then go with the one that > works best for your writer & the largest known/knowable variety of readers. > > B.T.W., LG may send their best units (unit-lots) to Sony &/or other > "Brand Names", and sell the 'shaky' stuff under their own name -- this > is a known operating plan used by *lots* of manufacturers for many years.
yeah, ecxept of NEC, Plextor and LG nobody builds own drives anymore. And this oem-drives only differ in their firmware (but this sometimes very dramatically). Good drives are compatible to a wide range of blanks and do know when to reduce speed for safety. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
