On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: > I sold this drive and decided to go with a genuine SCSI CDRW - a suitable > SCSI card costs very little, I have the Iwill SIDE-2930C which is fully > supported by Linux. I bought a Yamaha 2100S, a 16x10x40 SCSI drive. I know > you asked about IDE drives, but SCSI is certainly worth thinking about - > you will find it altogether more reliable. I have a scanner and the CDRW > plugged into my SCSI card.
I have been using a SCSI burner for nearly two years now. Burnt about 400 CDs in all, got just two coasters. Nothing like a genuine SCSI for robustness. I use xcdroast as a GUI frontend. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com