For a low-end box I'd recommend a SCSI burner (mine is a Toshiba, works great), and a SCSI HDD as well. Faster boxes can keep the IDE models' buffers full, but on a slower machine that's harder to do, especially since UDMA-33 was considered fast in those days. The SCSI card offloads all that from the CPU and manages it separately, so I think you'll have a better success rate that way. It also reduces the complexity of the setup, since there's no need for the ide-scsi emulation layer. Of course, SCSI hardware is more expensive than IDE, so then you have to ask yourself whether or not it's worth it to spend all that money on a machine four generations behind the curve.
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:20, Herbert H. DeLong wrote: > Is there a CDRW or CDW on the market and usable in Linux for a > 486DX2-66Mhz? > Also where is it available? I use COL e2.4. > > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
