Re: Please help with CD writer questions

1998-12-01 Thread ferret
I've had a lot of trouble setting up IDE writing systems. I just had one system I was working on at my work, where the customer wanted an IDE cd-rewriter working under NT and Linux. Found out that NT wouldn't use the IDE writer, even after the drivers for SCSI emulation were installed. I did get i

Re: Please help with CD writer questions

1998-11-28 Thread Mark W. Blunier
> Hi, I wanted to get one of these drives for data archival and I had afew > questions, i'de be glad for any advice: > > 2. What is the deal with the buffer underflow thing? I read (on Computers.co > m) that you should have a fast SCSI interface, because if you cant feed the > writer data fast eno

Re: Please help with CD writer questions

1998-11-27 Thread Gilbert Laycock
You probably want to have a look at Andy McFadden's CD-Recordable FAQ, which is not Linux oriented, but does have a lot of information about the hardware. It is at http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/ timothy> 1. I read (on NetExpress) that the shelf life of CD-R media timothy>is only like 5 year

Please help with CD writer questions

1998-11-26 Thread timothy
Hi, I wanted to get one of these drives for data archival and I had afew questions, i'de be glad for any advice: 1. I read (on NetExpress) that the shelf life of CD-R media is only like 5 years. Is this true? Doesn't this suck? And that CD-RW media has a shelf life of 30 years. Does this mean I ha