Specifically due to my requirements of the burning CD's issue,
I purchased a cheap Hi-Val DVD drive, and then a nice SCSI Plextor CDR
for burning. Both work flawlessly and the Plextor is one rock solid drive.
I use a SCSI-3 Plextor for fast reading connected to my 68pin bus. The IDE DVD
to IDE bus and the CD hooked to 50pin bus.
See :
<
<4> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R820T Rev: 1.03
<4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
<6>(scsi0:0:8:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
<4> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TW Rev: 1.01
<4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
<4>hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
This works excellent under SuSE with xcdroast. Now I can use the DVD single disk for SuSE
and burn at will.
Regards
Jerry Van Brimmer
Well, I have finally gotten to the place where I am frustrated with Linux. Why? Because, a couple of weeks ago I purchased a CDRW drive. The MAIN reason I purchased it was to store all of the Linux stuff I download off of the internet. Well, after getting it installed and functioning, I set about to learn how to use it (burn CDs). I learned how to use mkisofs and cdrecord, and Xcdroast. (I also have Win Me installed on my machine.) Adaptec Easy CD Creator and Direct CD came with my drive, and with Direct Cd I can format a CD in UDF format and write/read/erase files to a CDRW disc with no problems. I thought, cool, this is what I want to do in Linux. When I set about to learn how to do this in Linux, I was very disappointed to learn that UDF is at best a kernel patch to get it functioning. Yes, I know read support is in the kernel options, if I want to recompile the kernel, but not write support. I want to use my CDRW like a big floppy, but I can't in Linux. I want to USE Linux, not spend all of my time hacking it or recompiling the kernel. I am an end user, not a hacker. I have real work to get done and I'd LIKE to use Linux to get that work done. Sorry, but I have to use what works without having to spend a lot of time getting it working. I have been using Linux now for about one year, and have come to love it. However, this is a very frustrating roadblock for me. Unless someone can show me how to use my CDRW store/read/write/erase individual files onto my CDRW disks easily (Like DirectCD does in Windows Me)I may have to abandom Linux for the time being. I don't know anything about UDF, or how long the tecnology has been released, but I would think the Linux community would have better support for it than it does buy this time.
Please help me stay with the Penguin,
jvb
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