Get a cardbus SCSI card and external burner if you want reliability. Just my 2c...
I recently sold my 16x ide burner and went back to my SCSI 6x burner, it writes better and more reliably with audio. Its not exactly the cheapest, Adaptec 1480's run $120+, but they do work with Linux. Patrick Quoting Alexander Boulgakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have an older laptop, only USB (1.1 only I think, but I heard USB2.0 > > is backwards compatible) and PCMCIA ports avalable. I want to get a CD > > burner, and, as far as I can tell, PCMCIA doesn't provide enough bus > bandwidth to burn reliably (I have 32 bit, though, so I don't know about > > that). USB seems to be fine, and so I am aiming for a USB based burner. > > I looked on some sites about USB burners under Linux, and the best one > > seemed to be HP CD Writer 8290. Some other ones that work well were I/O > > Magic MagicWriter and Iomega External 4x4x6x CD-RW, Phillips > CDRW400,Plextor PX-W2410TU. I am not concerned about having a fast one > > -- my main criteria are price and /reliability/. Any suggestions or > experiences appreciated. > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
