What about the Adaptec 1460. People on USENET and on the PCMCIA site say it works, and it is only $99 (as opposed to $199 for the 1480). I does not have CardBus, but ruther PCMCIA type II. This probably means 16 bit transfers. Can this handle a 1x or 2x burner reliably?
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
