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Re: CD-RW drives and Linux



On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:52:47PM -0400, Alec Smith wrote:
> I'm looking into getting a CD-RW drive to go along with my Debian system.
> I'm looking at the following possible combinations.
> 
> 1. SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW

I'd go for this. I'm really regretting going IDE/IDE (Creative x32
CD-ROM and HP 8100i CD-RW) - the IDE CD-ROM drive is useless,
really, and the CD-RW takes a lot of CPU time.

> Would an IDE CD-RW be easily used in Debian?

My HP 8100i works well. Or it did until I forgot which kernel
options to use.
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