On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:41:25PM +0000, Paul Kelly wrote:
> >If I buy a CDRW drive from Dell should I expect difficulties in getting
> >it to work with Linux. (RH7.0)
>> You'll almost certainly be fine. However bear in mind that SCSI burners
> are worth double the price premium on them, and then some.
Unfortunately, double is about what the price premium is now. AFAIR when I
bought my current burner, a Yamaha SCSI, about 2.5 years ago, it cost me
something around 120 Euro. From the same supplier I can now buy a Yamaha IDE
burner for about the same price or a Lite-ON for about 80 Euro, if I'm
feeling very cheap. Last time I looked there was a SCSI burner (can't
remember model) listed for about 250 Euro - today they don't even have a
SCSI model listed.
SCSI burners are undoubtedly better, but getting one may be an issue, and
the price premium has become huge. And it seems that modern distributions
have become quite adept at detecting that you have a burner at installation
time and doing The Right Thing in terms of installing IDE-SCSI etc. modules
in order to make the whole experience as painless as posible. (Mind you
AFAIR the original poster was asking about a box with RH7.0 so he may have
to get involved with the joys of IDE-SCSI himself)
Niall
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