I don't know if this helps, but I just purchased a TDK IDE CD-RW that
runs nicely at 16x. It does not support power level checking that
cdrdao wants, so I have to use --force. Other than that, it's burnt
some 125 CD-R's in the last three weeks, and seems to work perfectly.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 a
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:39:13AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> However, it only writes at 4x, and I don't do CD-to-CD or pipe mkisofs
> to cdrecord, either. But buffer underruns are, in my opinion,
> definitely overrated.
Agreed. You can always nice cdrecord to make sure its priority and do
not
Get IDE chepo unless this is work machine. (If so, get scsi)
So answer is (These days, all ide work with Linux with minimum work.)
> $100 (after rebates)
> Acer 12x8x32 Internal CD-RW , part number in ad: CRW1208A
Hey good price. I bet only few company makes unit but sold under
different bra
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:48:27PM -0400, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote:
> On Friday 13 April 2001 22:23, D-Man wrote:
> > I think my desktop qualifies as "cheap" ($, 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
> $200
> Iomega 4x4x6 USB CD-RW , part number in ad: 31475
Take the iomega, it doesn't have those stupid rebates attached to it. When I
came to the US I was amazed how people jump like a dog when the marketing
manager says "hops, here's a rebate".
Fortunately this kind of sales practice is n
An article in the local free computer mag here quite a few months ago rated
CDRW drives, specifically with Linux in mind. They rated Yamaha tops,
followed by Plextor. At the time I could not find a cheap Yamaha locally,
but a got a slightly better than average deal on a Plextor. Admittedly I am
On Friday 13 April 2001 22:23, D-Man wrote:
> I think my desktop qualifies as "cheap" ($, 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 Yamah
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 08:30:46AM +0800, csj wrote:
| On Saturday 14 April 2001 06:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| > > $250
| > > Yamaha 16x10x40 CD-RW , part number in ad: CRW2100EZ
| > > If I get the Yamaha, I can get 128MB PC13 RAM for free (after
| > > rebates)
| >
| > If this Yamah
On Saturday 14 April 2001 06:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > $250
> > Yamaha 16x10x40 CD-RW , part number in ad: CRW2100EZ
> > If I get the Yamaha, I can get 128MB PC13 RAM for free (after
> > rebates)
>
> If this Yamaha one is SCSI then go for it. I have the CDRW8824SZ
> (8/8/24) and
> $250
> Yamaha 16x10x40 CD-RW , part number in ad: CRW2100EZ
> If I get the Yamaha, I can get 128MB PC13 RAM for free (after
> rebates)
If this Yamaha one is SCSI then go for it. I have the CDRW8824SZ
(8/8/24) and it works fine. I don't like IDE at all except for cheap
desktops so
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