Re: CD-RW drives and Linux (IDE/IDE quirks)

1999-07-07 Thread Ray
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 12:28:59PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:07:47PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > > The cheapest option would be the IDE/IDE combo. Would an IDE CD-RW be > > easily used in Debian? Also, which drives are recommended? I'm more > > interested in burnin

Re: CD-RW drives and Linux

1999-07-07 Thread Wouter Hanegraaff
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:07:47PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > The cheapest option would be the IDE/IDE combo. Would an IDE CD-RW be > easily used in Debian? Also, which drives are recommended? I'm more > interested in burning CD-R discs than the ReWrite capabilities. With the right kernel options,

Re: CD-RW drives and Linux

1999-07-05 Thread Peter Ross
I have the Panasonic CW-7502 SCSI CDROM drive, with an AMD K6-2 350 and 128Mb of PC100 memory. I have compiled the kernel, watch updatedb start running in the middle of a burn and compiled the Mercury compiler (much more memory, cpu and disk intensive then the kernel) during CD burns without any h

Re: CD-RW drives and Linux

1999-07-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > I'm looking into getting a CD-RW drive to go along with my Debian system. > I'm looking at the following possible combinations. > > 1. SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW > 2. IDE CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW > 3. SCSI CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW > 4. IDE CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW >

Re: CD-RW drives and Linux

1999-07-05 Thread wim
I am doing the IDE/IDE thing. If you already have a SCSI controller, you could go for that. I have had no problems; just compile SCSI-IDE emulation support into the kernel so that both your IDE cdroms will speak scsi. Somebody mentioned CPU usage. I don't see why this should matter, I don't touc

Re: CD-RW drives and Linux

1999-07-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:52:47PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > I'm looking into getting a CD-RW drive to go along with my Debian system. > I'm looking at the following possible combinations. > > 1. SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW > 2. IDE CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW > 3. SCSI CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW > 4. IDE CD-

Re: CD-RW drives and Linux

1999-07-05 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:52:47PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > I'm looking into getting a CD-RW drive to go along with my Debian system. > I'm looking at the following possible combinations. > > 1. SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW I'd go for this. I'm really regretting going IDE/IDE (Creative x32 CD-ROM