Ahem. $199 for the Adaptec 1480, plus ~100-150 for an external scsi. This is kind of steep. Any other suggestions? (Pinch a penny till the buffalo farts...) OTOH, "you get what you pay for." Perhaps this is a good investments after all.
Thanks! Alex Patrick Lang wrote: > Any Teac or Plextor would be great. Hypermicro.com has all the goods, > they specialize in highend storage and have good prices. SCSI's > expensive but it won't ever let you down ;) > > Also, I don't know about firewire cdrw's in linux, but they've been > reliable on Macs from what I've heard. I think the popular FW->IDE > chipset Oxford 911 works under Linux. This could end up being about > half the cost of SCSI. > > Patrick > > On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 12:02, Alexander Boulgakov wrote: > >>Fine. So Adaptec 1480 is a CardBus<->SCSI adapter. Which SCSI burner do >>you recommend to go along with that? >> >>Alex >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>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 > > > > _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
