On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:59:38 +0000
"Ronny B." <nny at purehatred.org> blurted in message 20020327125938.GE13128 at deviant.impure.org.uk:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:01:07AM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > 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
> If anyone even knows what SCSI is in the shops I've asked, they think it's
> some outdated crap that is to be avoided :(
>> When my 3.5 years old Yamaha burner dies, I won't be able to get a decent
> replacement around here, I guess.
>I got the Yamaha 16x SCSI cd-writer from IT-direct about 6 months ago for 180 IEP... not as cheap as a 20x IDE writer, but the machine it's going in has a good SCSI card, and a really crap IDE controller ( ~3 Mb/s)
(and at least when using real scsi, you don't have to make a fake scsi controller from the ATAPI one...)
L.
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