On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 21:09:14 +1000 Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > I am in the market for a RW CD for my pc...
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> Well I have had 2 different Burners working with Linux over 4 years. The
first was an Actima and
> the others were Sony (8 and 12X)...
If I may add my $0.02 worth here... :')
Sony is a good brand and it may be the brand I buy in the near future. What I
was
using, before it died a miserable death, was a Yamaha 4416s. It worked
flawslessly
for a number of years, perhaps making thousands of copies of various flavors of
linux distributions. :') I did at one time own a 6416s that died shortly after
putting it
to work... Both were scsi devices. Would I buy another Yamaha? Maybe, but it'd
have
to be listed as 100% CDRECORD compatible and priced very cheap.
That said... I'll probably be buying an IDE interface cdrw this time around.
Something
that sports the "BURN PROOF TECHNOLOGY" tag... like for instance a TDK VELOCD
line of drives... TDK sells one that supposedly writes at 40x... Wow... If
true, it'll
be alot of fun.
Basic advice would be... if your computer is totally IDE, then go with an IDE
CDRW
device on it's own IDE channel. If you're able to use scsi devices, then scsi
is the
way to go. Over here, when the 4416s was still alive, I was able to stream from
a
Toshiba 40x scsi cdrom drive to the scsi burner at 4x and never made a bad
copy. All
the while I was running kde, netscape, you name it...
I've been told that ide writers were good, but I have my doubts if they can do
that
kind of activity because of bandwidth limitations, etc . I'll find out for
certain one of
these days.
Cheers.
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