On Monday 19 March 2001 02:59, jens nielsen wrote:
Hi Mike,
I doesn't really matter today. Buy what you can afford. If you decide SCSI, don't settle for a crappy (cheap) controllercard.
If you decide for IDE, emulate all your IDE CDROMS/Burners/DVD's through IDE-SCSI. Makes it easier for some programs when looking for the units.
I have an ATPIA PleXwriter 6/4/12 that works beautifully as a CDROM, and the SB PCI512 plays beautiful music from a CD in it. BUT, I cannet get xcdroast to see it when it is configured as ide-scsi, and the SB PCI512 refused to install properly under YaST2 (Test won't give a sound). If I were to do it over again I would order both a SCSI CDRW and a scsi Zip drive. The emulations are a pain to setup, if they work at all. imo JLK
Also, don't every buy a LG (lucky goldstar), they spew out errors every minute or so (crap drives).
My two cents :-)
Sincerly, Jens Nielsen
On Thursday 15 March 2001 19:23, you wrote:
I have just set up my 7.1 box and I am floored by it. I absolutely love it. I am new to linux and this is the third distro I have tried after redhat and mandrake. htis is by far the best. now that i have decided to stick with it, i want to get a burner so i can inch closer to dropping microsh*t altogether. i would love to hear everyone's opinion on which ones work best, both scsi and ide. thanks in advance for any info you wise people can impart to me.
Mike
not registered linux user yet, but very close :)