What about a direct CardBus CD burner? Searching the web now. Alex
Alexander Boulgakov wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
