Thanks...
I was thinking Yamaha too, what type of scsi card would you recommend for an
internal scsi drive?
thanks again,
Ahbaid.
Gregory Hosler wrote:
> On 14-Aug-00 Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to buy an internal CD-RW drive,
> >
> > now, my system has two IDE channels available...
> >
> > The way I see it my options are:
> >
> > 1) Buy a SCSI card, and a SCSI CD-RW (Expensive, but very fast...)
> >
> > 2) Buy an IDE CD-RW (Not as Expensive, not as efficient as SCSI)
> >
> > What SCSI Card, SCSI CD-RW / IDE CD-RW would you recommend?
> >
> > thanks,
>
> strong recommendation for you to go Yamaha for the drive. I've used several,
> and I now have 3 Yamahas (2 in my 2 systems, my oldest in my wifes). All other
> writers I have trashed (includes: Philipps 2600 series, HP something series, and
> a Sony one).
>
> The Yamaha comes in both IDE and SCSI, Internal and external (well, no external
> IDE). Also comes in tray or cartridge. get the tray one (the cartridge you have
> to put the cd in this "casing" and slide that in). supposedly the cartridge
> is more reliable, but I have burned literally multiple hundreds of cds in
> tray versions of the writer. just as sturdy, reliable, and much much more
> convenient.
>
> don't get a cheaper drive and think "they're all teh same, I'm just saving
> money". That most definately are not all the same, and you are almost certainly
> not saving money (considering that you'll be replacing the drive because it
> pisses you off, or because you get 1 coaster for every 3 burns). The yamaha
> drive I have a 99.99 % success rate, and that 1 failure was when I was mke2fs
> a LARGE partition on a SLOW drive while burning. other than that, even at 100%
> cpu load, I never burn a coaster (on the yamaha. The philips I got a coaster
> every 2nd or 3rd try, even when the system was totally idle).
>
> If you do go scsi, get a 29160 - you can later expand to a better scsi disk
> (at a price, of course) if you want. Me I'm 100% scsi at home. My wife's
> machine is ide though. The IDE yamaha should work on your ide based system
> just fine. I have one on my wifes's IDE system, and it works fine, this
> inspite of the fact that she's running w95.
>
> -Greg
>
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> Date: 16-Aug-00
> Time: 09:59:43
>
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