If you're after cheep see if you can score a second hand drive from somewhere... Often ppl buy newer/faster writers 'just cause they can', when there's nothing wrong with the old one, except its not as fast. I bought a Mustek 4/4/24 writer (previous to finding this one i didn't even know mustek made burners) second hand for $80 about a year ago. I've only ever made one coaster with it in Linux, and that was when i physically shook the case putting the side back on, while writing.
Cheers, Steve On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 10:01:07PM +1200, Dion Bonner wrote: > Hey all, > > This question isn't exactly Linux specific but... > > I am looking for information on the quality of the Cyberdrive CD burners > that Dick Smith Electronics have been advertising recently. > > My reason for asking is that I need something to burn my Linux > distribution to a CD (I have several hundred megabytes of debs sitting > on my 4 gig disk) and I am a school student (euphemism for "kid") > without much money. > > I was wondering whether or not these CD burners are of reasonable > quality, or are they cheap for a very good reason? > > Thanks, > > > Dion. > > P.S I apologize for the ad at the end of this message - my fault for > using a free e-mail providor :-( > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > Check your e-mail on your mobile phone - http://www.fastmail.co.nz -- )--------------------Stephen Nicholas--------------------( Uni Hall Ph: (03) 341 1500 Private Bag 4760 Extn: 54419 Christchurch 021 504 412 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 70245950 )---------------www.steve.nicholas.net.nz----------------(
