Hi all, As some of you already know, I'm not very experienced in the CD-writing arena... I'm about to come into possession (permanently, unlike last time) of a CD burner, either EIDE or SCSI - unknown as yet. The drive in question is a Sony Spressa Professional CRX145. This is a nice new 10x4x32 speed drive with 4MB of cache. Unfortunately, the list of system requirements for this drive list a minimum of a P233 processor, while I only have a lowly Cyrix P150+ :'( My first question is this: will this have any major effect on the drive, i.e. will it still work? I realise that I may have to drop the write speed somewhat, but it will work, right? The second issue at hand is Linux compatibility... some form of Spressa does appear in the CDB with the following entries: Sony Spressa 924S Link Sony Spressa 926S Link However, I don't think either of these are the model I'm looking at, and I don't have a clue what the 'Link' in the status field means. Needless to say, the system requirements on the box merely list various flavours of Windows, with no mention of Linux. As far as I'm aware, there shouldn't be any problems/differences with either the SCSI or the EIDE versions, correct? Apart from the fact that the SCSI one would be easier to set up and have a faster interface, of course. I think this drive is likely to be supported then, would you agree? One last thing - does anyone know if the Advansys 930/40U 960/70U SCSI controller is SCSI-2 compatible? I don't have access to the docs just now, but from the website (and from the fact that it has 50-pin connectors everywhere) it does appear to be SCSI-2... Sorry for all these quite tedious questions, but I just want to be sure before all this (very rarely seen) money gets spent... ;-) It would be great if someone could take the time to confirm this for me. Thanking you kindly in advance, Chris -- Apologies to everyone who has been waiting for replies off me over the past few weeks - I've been away from my computer. I'll try to catch up with my email over the coming days, but don't be surprised if you get a reply in a month's time... __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/