[newbie] CDRW compatability
is anyone out there using either of the following CD RWs with Mandrake 7.2? Philips PCRW1208 Sony CRX160E i'm looking at buying one of those. they are not listed in the compatable hardware list at the mandrake site. both are IDE. thanks adrian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 08:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: is anyone out there using either of the following CD RWs with Mandrake 7.2? Philips PCRW1208 Sony CRX160E i'm looking at buying one of those. they are not listed in the compatable hardware list at the mandrake site. both are IDE. thanks adrian IDE is fine, buy a Plextor or Yamaha, don't buy a Sony, Philips isn't a good idea either -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
really? hmmm. i'll have to check on those then. i had a philips but it died. it was an older model and a SCSI, but worked real good, until death that is. and i saw that some other sony model numbers close to the 160 worked (they are on the mdk list) so i was going from that point. i will check out the plextor and yamaha options. thanks Tom, and to others who have replied to me on this topic. adrian In a message dated 9/11/01 7:30:14 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is anyone out there using either of the following CD RWs with Mandrake 7.2? Philips PCRW1208 Sony CRX160E i'm looking at buying one of those. they are not listed in the compatable hardware list at the mandrake site. both are IDE. thanks adrian IDE is fine, buy a Plextor or Yamaha, don't buy a Sony, Philips isn't a good idea either -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
On Tuesday 11 September 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote: really? hmmm. i'll have to check on those then. i had a philips but it died. it was an older model and a SCSI, but worked real good, until death that is. and i saw that some other sony model numbers close to the 160 worked (they are on the mdk list) so i was going from that point. i will check out the plextor and yamaha options. thanks Tom, and to others who have replied to me on this topic. adrian I am set up with a dual boot - Windoze98, and LM8. I just installed a Plextor 12/10/32 over the weekend. I bought this drive base on input from several people knowledgeable in unix, linux, and windoze. I can tell you that it is a very good, solid drive. I have it set up under W98, but the drivers are established for linux, and I'll tackle the setup in Mandrake in the next few days. Being a recovering windowsaholic, this may or may not go well. I still know very little about linux, and the learning curve is steep for me, but I'm convinced it is a far superior OS, and I will do what it takes to rid myself and my family of the dreaded windows virus. Anyway, my point being that if the setup of the plextor goes well, I will post results... if not, I will post many questions. And not to make light of the current situation here, but while we are all praying, thank God for this list. Peace, Stan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
* Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010911 19:43]: IDE is fine, buy a Plextor or Yamaha, don't buy a Sony, Philips isn't a good idea either I agree with Tom about Yamaha ... but I can't recommend Plextor. I tried to return a CDRW that crapped a month short of the 1 year warranty. Since it was over one year from manufacture date, I had to fax them my invoice. They subsequently LOST my fax, and after many emails back and forth I finally gave up and bought a Yamaha to replace it. The Yamaha works fine. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, SQL, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
Hi, I have a Plextor Plexwriter 16/10/40A, and since I bought it, it has only reinforced my feelings that they make the BEST quality/most compatible/easiest to install CD-RWs. David Charles On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2001 08:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: is anyone out there using either of the following CD RWs with Mandrake 7.2? Philips PCRW1208 Sony CRX160E i'm looking at buying one of those. they are not listed in the compatable hardware list at the mandrake site. both are IDE. thanks adrian IDE is fine, buy a Plextor or Yamaha, don't buy a Sony, Philips isn't a good idea either -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
Hi, Sorry, I forgot to mention: I am running LM 8.0/XF86 4 David Charles On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Plextor Plexwriter 16/10/40A, and since I bought it, it has only reinforced my feelings that they make the BEST quality/most compatible/easiest to install CD-RWs. David Charles On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2001 08:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: is anyone out there using either of the following CD RWs with Mandrake 7.2? Philips PCRW1208 Sony CRX160E i'm looking at buying one of those. they are not listed in the compatable hardware list at the mandrake site. both are IDE. thanks adrian IDE is fine, buy a Plextor or Yamaha, don't buy a Sony, Philips isn't a good idea either -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
Hi, Stan: what do you mean by ...drivers are established for linux...? David Charles On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stan Lockaby wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2001 09:41 pm, you wrote: really? hmmm. i'll have to check on those then. i had a philips but it died. it was an older model and a SCSI, but worked real good, until death that is. and i saw that some other sony model numbers close to the 160 worked (they are on the mdk list) so i was going from that point. i will check out the plextor and yamaha options. thanks Tom, and to others who have replied to me on this topic. adrian I am set up with a dual boot - Windoze98, and LM8. I just installed a Plextor 12/10/32 over the weekend. I bought this drive base on input from several people knowledgeable in unix, linux, and windoze. I can tell you that it is a very good, solid drive. I have it set up under W98, but the drivers are established for linux, and I'll tackle the setup in Mandrake in the next few days. Being a recovering windowsaholic, this may or may not go well. I still know very little about linux, and the learning curve is steep for me, but I'm convinced it is a far superior OS, and I will do what it takes to rid myself and my family of the dreaded windows virus. Anyway, my point being that if the setup of the plextor goes well, I will post results... if not, I will post many questions. And not to make light of the current situation here, but while we are all praying, thank God for this list. Peace, Stan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDRW compatability
Hi, Nope; out of the box, the installer found it and installed it correctly (and installed the ide-scsi package, with correct additions to LILO). I use cdrecord from the command line. Works beautifully (the BURN-Proof is a dream :) I compile/install/download/browse/etc./etc... while burning with NO problems), but for some reason when I use GCombust or gtoaster (or XCDRoast or ANY GUI that uses cdrecord), there is inevitably a problem, where I can't start the burn process, I would say 9 times out of 10; but this is not a problem with the drive from what I can see, because same thing happened with a Sony I had when running SuSE in a different system. HTH, David Charles On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Stan Lockaby wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2001 11:09 pm, you wrote: Hi, Sorry, I forgot to mention: I am running LM 8.0/XF86 4 David Charles On Tue, 11 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Plextor Plexwriter 16/10/40A, and since I bought it, it has only reinforced my feelings that they make the BEST quality/most compatible/easiest to install CD-RWs. David Charles David, any particular problems setting this drive up under LM8? Anything to look out for? Also, any recommended front ends for CD-RW? TIA, stan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
