On Friday 13 April 2001 22:23, D-Man wrote: > I think my desktop qualifies as "cheap" ($, I only paid ~$400) > because I bought some parts and kept some others. It is a Duron 750 > with 128MB RAM. If I get that drive I will get the free memory and > have 256MB! I forgot to mention that the Yamaha doesn't say what bus > it plugs into, but the picture looks like itis an internal drive. > The comments in the ad say "Its 8MB buffer virtually eliminates > buffer underruns". An 8MB buffer sounds nice.
Another feature to look for is BURNProof. This is a new feature found on many drives that lets it recover from an underrun. Cdrecord supports it on Linux. That said I have never seen an underrun on my system (850MHz Athalon, 128MB RAM). I don't do any CD to CD copying though. I have the CD Writer on the ATA100 a seperate IDE controller from the HDD and CDROM (Everything is master). This is using an ASUS K7V motherboard, a Maxtor ATA66 HDD, Plextor 12/10/32A CDR and a cheapo Creative 52x CDROM. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
