On 10/28/05, Hans du Plooy <hansdp-lists@sagacit.com> wrote:
Plextor - in the days when CD writers were too expensive for everyone to own one, one of the engineering labs at the university had one machine with a CD writer for everybody's use. Can't remember the brand, but seeing as there's a permanent queue of people waiting to burn something, from 6 AM to midnight, this drive didn't last a month. They replaced it with a Plextor IDE drive. This was three years ago, I believe that same drive is still running there.
Now, as I read I remember the brand who was ageist open source tools :) Plextor it is: http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/11886 And ... actually the drive I want to replace, thus the orig. post, is/was Plextor 712A. I died on me 1 day after the warranty expired, precise heh. Yes, they was a name in that business, but looks like not any more. I have a friend with another one dies on him. Anyway, I just ordered NEC drive for 38$ shipped in US, I've read a good reviews. The deal details are on fatwallet.com. Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)