Re: CD-RW drives and Linux
I am doing the IDE/IDE thing. If you already have a SCSI controller, you could
go for that. I have had no problems; just compile SCSI-IDE emulation support
into the kernel so that both your IDE cdroms will speak scsi.
Somebody mentioned CPU usage. I don't see why this should matter, I don't touch
my system while it is burning. It is not suggested to do any IDE intensive use
such as extracting and compiling a kernel.
Is SCSI all that much faster for burning?
I have a 40x CD-ROM and a HP 7200i CD-RW.
On 05-Jul-99 Stephen Pitts wrote:
> 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
>> 2. IDE CD-ROM and SCSI CD-RW
>> 3. SCSI CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW
>> 4. IDE CD-ROM and IDE CD-RW
>>
>> The cheapest option would be the IDE/IDE combo. Would an IDE CD-RW be
>> easily used in Debian? Also, which drives are recommended? I'm more
>> interested in burning CD-R discs than the ReWrite capabilities.
>>
>>
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> I've got an HP 8100i and another Creative Labs CD-ROM and it works
> great! I've had better burning experiences in Linux than in
> Windows; windows has given me several golden frisbies.
> The xcdroast program provides a nice, clean interface
> to burn CDs.
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