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Re: [SLE] SCSI CDRW question ...more
- From: "H du Plooy" <linuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 15:59:50 +0200
- Message-id: <web-19043461@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi, thanks for your reply
> I can comment on this. If you already know, sorry. CDRW
> for speed <=4 and speed>4 are physically different and
> incompatible. The 4x speed limit for traditional CDRW
> is absolute. The new ones that can go higher are marked
> "High speed" and they can go up to 10x. I've seen some
> new ones that can go even higher, it is yet another
> technology. This light being shed, it is understable why
> an old CD-burner cannot use not CDRW.
Ok, this makes sense. I thought that the 4x RW rated
drives just couln't do the 4x-10x drives because it doesn't
quite write at 4x.
> > 24x rewrite is already common on the new IDE drives,
> > but still 12x seems to be the limit for SCSI drives.
> > I don'twant to spend big bucks on a really nice drive,
> > only to find that over 3 or so years, I can't find
> > disks that willwork in it.
>
> You're sure? When I buy CDRW I still see a lot of 1-4x.
> They are cheaper and more common, as there are still many
> CD-burners that are limited to 4x for them (I'm thinking
> about USB 1.1 burners). Maybe it depends on the country?
> I'm living in France.
I live in South Africa in a small campus town. I'm sure
there are a wider variety of disks available in the big
cities, but here I have, for 1x,2x,4x rewriteables, a
choice between Intenso, Verbatim, Dysan and Sony disks. I
have gotten so many duds from Intenso, I won't buy their
stuff again. With Verbatim I've had the same problem over
and over that the coating on top of the CD peels off all by
itself, distroying the CD, basically. And some of them
just go bad - no drive would read them properly, even
though the disks aren't scratched. Maybe we just get the
leftovers sent to Africa, who knows. So the only ones left
are Dysan and Sony. I haven't had any troubles with them,
but their disks are quite expensive.
For 4x-12x disk there are Dysan and Princo. Again the
Dysans are expensive (about R30 ZAR per disk). I've used
hundreds of Princo disks, and I've never had a problem with
them. And as a bonus they're the cheapest disks I can find
(aside from those no-name blank ones that have a habit of
breaking in my drive) - R100 for a box of 10 with cases.
So I guess I'll just have to accept that whatever writer I
buy will get outdated much sooner than I'd like. Knowing
that I'd much rather buy an IDE drive, than a SCSI (It's a
substancial amount of money on my budget), but having seen
a system with no IDE drives in perform, made me an instinct
SCSI fan!
Thanks for your help
Hans
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> I can comment on this. If you already know, sorry. CDRW
> for speed <=4 and speed>4 are physically different and
> incompatible. The 4x speed limit for traditional CDRW
> is absolute. The new ones that can go higher are marked
> "High speed" and they can go up to 10x. I've seen some
> new ones that can go even higher, it is yet another
> technology. This light being shed, it is understable why
> an old CD-burner cannot use not CDRW.
Ok, this makes sense. I thought that the 4x RW rated
drives just couln't do the 4x-10x drives because it doesn't
quite write at 4x.
> > 24x rewrite is already common on the new IDE drives,
> > but still 12x seems to be the limit for SCSI drives.
> > I don'twant to spend big bucks on a really nice drive,
> > only to find that over 3 or so years, I can't find
> > disks that willwork in it.
>
> You're sure? When I buy CDRW I still see a lot of 1-4x.
> They are cheaper and more common, as there are still many
> CD-burners that are limited to 4x for them (I'm thinking
> about USB 1.1 burners). Maybe it depends on the country?
> I'm living in France.
I live in South Africa in a small campus town. I'm sure
there are a wider variety of disks available in the big
cities, but here I have, for 1x,2x,4x rewriteables, a
choice between Intenso, Verbatim, Dysan and Sony disks. I
have gotten so many duds from Intenso, I won't buy their
stuff again. With Verbatim I've had the same problem over
and over that the coating on top of the CD peels off all by
itself, distroying the CD, basically. And some of them
just go bad - no drive would read them properly, even
though the disks aren't scratched. Maybe we just get the
leftovers sent to Africa, who knows. So the only ones left
are Dysan and Sony. I haven't had any troubles with them,
but their disks are quite expensive.
For 4x-12x disk there are Dysan and Princo. Again the
Dysans are expensive (about R30 ZAR per disk). I've used
hundreds of Princo disks, and I've never had a problem with
them. And as a bonus they're the cheapest disks I can find
(aside from those no-name blank ones that have a habit of
breaking in my drive) - R100 for a box of 10 with cases.
So I guess I'll just have to accept that whatever writer I
buy will get outdated much sooner than I'd like. Knowing
that I'd much rather buy an IDE drive, than a SCSI (It's a
substancial amount of money on my budget), but having seen
a system with no IDE drives in perform, made me an instinct
SCSI fan!
Thanks for your help
Hans
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