On January 5, 2001 06:49 pm, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Hello all. > > I am looking for a method to archive a bunch of stuff off of a couple > different computers and since one is a laptop and one a desktop, it > seems a parallel attached CDR drive might be the answer (I'm not > enthused about Zip or Iomega drives). I know that the kernel has > support for these devices, but I would like others' opinions on a > good drive, write reliability, etc. Speed is secondary at this point > and a 2 or 4x write speed would be more than adequate. Perhaps such > beasts don't exist and I'm just imagining things. Right now I'm > running Potato on both machines with kernel 2.2.14 on one and 2.2.15 > on the other (been too lazy to upgrade) if that makes a difference.
The MicroSolutions (www.micro-solutions.com) Backpack CD-ReWriter works with 2.2 kernels. You need a binary only module from there website. It does not work with 2.4. The bpck.o module from the normal paride drivers does not work with this drive. I can get 4x writing even with X runnign on a Compaq Presario 1275 (AMDK6-2 366MHz, 96MB RAM, EPP parallel port w/ interupts enabled). Reading CDs sometimes crashes the machine, so I usse the backpack for writing only and use the built in CDROM for reading. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
