On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I have gotten CD-R disks for as low as 10 cents each (after a rebate on > a 10 pack.).
And the rebate company sells the list of adresses they collect to all sorts of nice warm and fuzzy firms. :) > Also I think you can't even buy a CD-R drive anymore, all > the new ones are CD-RW (which also write CD-R's). Compusa and best buy > have periodicly had IDE CD-RW drives on sale for $149-$199 after rebate. > I havn't gotten one yet (OK as soon as the price gets below $149 I > will) but I understand that to use the IDE kind you have to enable scsi > emulation in the kernel. I tried this with my ide CD-rom drive and it > works fine (except for the XCDplayer). Even though I've seen no hard evidence, I still worry about data throughput with a burner on an IDE chain. > I have also been told that the 2x and 4x drives only will write ONCE at > that speed without powering down the computer (and therefore the drive) > to let it cool down. But you can burn forever at 1x. Anyone had this > problem? Is this supposedly for IDE's? I've never had this problem with my SCSI (at 2x). I can't imagine they'd sell very many drives this way. -Dano
