The 29160 (just like in my original reply :)
-greg
On 16-Aug-00 Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:
> Thanks...
>
> I was thinking Yamaha too, what type of scsi card would you recommend for an
> internal scsi drive?
>
> thanks again,
>
> Ahbaid.
>
> Gregory Hosler wrote:
>
>> On 14-Aug-00 Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'd like to buy an internal CD-RW drive,
>> >
>> > now, my system has two IDE channels available...
>> >
>> > The way I see it my options are:
>> >
>> > 1) Buy a SCSI card, and a SCSI CD-RW (Expensive, but very fast...)
>> >
>> > 2) Buy an IDE CD-RW (Not as Expensive, not as efficient as SCSI)
>> >
>> > What SCSI Card, SCSI CD-RW / IDE CD-RW would you recommend?
>> >
>> > thanks,
>>
>> strong recommendation for you to go Yamaha for the drive. I've used several,
>> and I now have 3 Yamahas (2 in my 2 systems, my oldest in my wifes). All
>> other
>> writers I have trashed (includes: Philipps 2600 series, HP something series,
>> and
>> a Sony one).
>>
>> The Yamaha comes in both IDE and SCSI, Internal and external (well, no
>> external
>> IDE). Also comes in tray or cartridge. get the tray one (the cartridge you
>> have
>> to put the cd in this "casing" and slide that in). supposedly the cartridge
>> is more reliable, but I have burned literally multiple hundreds of cds in
>> tray versions of the writer. just as sturdy, reliable, and much much more
>> convenient.
>>
>> don't get a cheaper drive and think "they're all teh same, I'm just saving
>> money". That most definately are not all the same, and you are almost
>> certainly
>> not saving money (considering that you'll be replacing the drive because it
>> pisses you off, or because you get 1 coaster for every 3 burns). The yamaha
>> drive I have a 99.99 % success rate, and that 1 failure was when I was
>> mke2fs
>> a LARGE partition on a SLOW drive while burning. other than that, even at
>> 100%
>> cpu load, I never burn a coaster (on the yamaha. The philips I got a coaster
>> every 2nd or 3rd try, even when the system was totally idle).
>>
>> If you do go scsi, get a 29160 - you can later expand to a better scsi disk
>> (at a price, of course) if you want. Me I'm 100% scsi at home. My wife's
>> machine is ide though. The IDE yamaha should work on your ide based system
>> just fine. I have one on my wifes's IDE system, and it works fine, this
>> inspite of the fact that she's running w95.
>>
>> -Greg
>>
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>> Date: 16-Aug-00
>> Time: 09:59:43
>>
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>> ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does.
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Date: 16-Aug-00
Time: 16:04:13
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