Re: CD-R/RW Question
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> I have gotten CD-R disks for as low as 10 cents each (after a rebate on
> a 10 pack.).
And the rebate company sells the list of adresses they collect to all
sorts of nice warm and fuzzy firms. :)
> Also I think you can't even buy a CD-R drive anymore, all
> the new ones are CD-RW (which also write CD-R's). Compusa and best buy
> have periodicly had IDE CD-RW drives on sale for $149-$199 after rebate.
> I havn't gotten one yet (OK as soon as the price gets below $149 I
> will) but I understand that to use the IDE kind you have to enable scsi
> emulation in the kernel. I tried this with my ide CD-rom drive and it
> works fine (except for the XCDplayer).
Even though I've seen no hard evidence, I still worry about data
throughput with a burner on an IDE chain.
> I have also been told that the 2x and 4x drives only will write ONCE at
> that speed without powering down the computer (and therefore the drive)
> to let it cool down. But you can burn forever at 1x. Anyone had this
> problem?
Is this supposedly for IDE's? I've never had this problem with my SCSI
(at 2x). I can't imagine they'd sell very many drives this way.
-Dano
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