Re: Linux compatible IDE CDRW

[S.Salman Ahmed <ssahmed@pathcom.com>]

>>>>> "md" == mdevin  <mdevin@ozemail.com.au> writes:
    md>  Which would be the best for me to get?  Plextor CD-RW
    md> PX-W1210TA 12/10/32 IDE 2m Buffer Burn-Proof Sony CD-RW
    md> CRX160EBK 12/8/32 Internal IDE Retail Kit 4mb PC/MAC Yamaha
    md> CD-RW Internal 16Wx10RWx40R IDE Retail Kit CRW2100EVK
    md> 
    md> If I had a choice of these, is there anything to choose between
    md> them in terms of compatibility with Linux and ide-scsi driver?
    md> 

Plextor burners are very highly recommended, esp. their SCSI models. If
you have the extra cash go for the Plextor.

I personally have the Yamaha IDE model you list above and am very happy
with it. Mind you, at 16X the Yamaha model doesn't write at 16X all
through the burn process. I read somewhere that it starts out at a lower
speed and then "eventually" goes upto 16X. I think
http://www.storagereview.com mentioned that in their review of the
Yamaha CRW2100.

    md> Even though I can't find anywhere that says anything about any
    md> of these being MMC-complient, are they?  I read somewhere that
    md> all CDRW IDE drives since 1999 should be MMC-complient.
    md> 

All of them probably are MMC-compilent. The Yamaha CRW2100 is
MMC-compliant:

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
  Vendor: YAMAHA    Model: CRW2100E          Rev: 1.0D
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

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