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 have to get a CD-RW? 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 enough, the write will die. - Does this mean that all IDE CD-Writers are useless? And what if you do get a SCSI Writer, but are using an IDE hard disk? Wont you still be stuck? 3. (this might be stupid) Can you use EIDE drives on IDE interfaces? 4. Which one should I get? The main requirements being linux compatability and price. (Since i'm a poor student. :)). 5. I have a SCSI card of sorts: One of the Adaptec things that comes with iomega zip drives. Could I plug a CDR into this, or does it suck? Whew:). Thanks alot in advance for any advice! Timothy ---------------------------------- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-Nov-98 Time: 16:24:51 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. ----------------------------------
