On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 08:30:46AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Saturday 14 April 2001 06:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > > $250 | > > Yamaha 16x10x40 CD-RW , part number in ad: CRW2100EZ | > > If I get the Yamaha, I can get 128MB PC13 RAM for free (after | > > rebates) | > | > If this Yamaha one is SCSI then go for it. I have the CDRW8824SZ | > (8/8/24) and it works fine. I don't like IDE at all except for | > cheap desktops so I'm kind of biased towards SCSI. | | I have an IDE writer and it also works fine. The only advantage of | SCSI is when you plan to do CD-to-CDR duplication. My advice: always | dd your CD to your HD. Note also: an IDE writer and a cheap (read | slow) desktop is a bad combination. This is where you get your buffer | underruns.
I think my desktop qualifies as "cheap" ($, 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 Yamaha doesn't say what bus it plugs into, but the picture looks like itis an internal drive. The comments in the ad say "Its 8MB buffer virtually eliminates buffer underruns". An 8MB buffer sounds nice. How well does Linux play DVD's right now? I've heard of a few CD-R(W)+DVD combo drives. If DVD is good (and not too hard to setup) I might wait and get one. OTOH they are probably really expensive. I didn't watch many DVD's on my old machine that came with the drive (it still had windo~1 which came with a software player/decoder). Thanks for the info so far. -D
