At 01:28 AM 7/27/01 +1000, Sam Varghese wrote: >On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:51:54AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: >> I sold this drive and decided to go with a genuine SCSI CDRW - a suitable >> SCSI card costs very little, I have the Iwill SIDE-2930C which is fully >> supported by Linux. I bought a Yamaha 2100S, a 16x10x40 SCSI drive. I know >> you asked about IDE drives, but SCSI is certainly worth thinking about - >> you will find it altogether more reliable. I have a scanner and the CDRW >> plugged into my SCSI card. > >I have been using a SCSI burner for nearly two years now. Burnt >about 400 CDs in all, got just two coasters. Nothing like a genuine >SCSI for robustness. I use xcdroast as a GUI frontend. >
Come come you hardware snobs! ;) I've got an AOpen CRW-1232 running SCSI emulation with nary a coaster in sight the few caosters i've ahd have been caused by processor overload (it's sitting on a pent 200) and not dive controller issues.
