[ILUG] CDRW drive: recommendations?

[Declan de Lacy Murphy]

Where is it that you get the Yamaha IDE Burner for ?80? I just want a cheap and cheerful burner.

Declan


27/03/02 08:01:07, Niall O Broin <niall at linux.ie> wrote:

>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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