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  From: Don Collins <doncol@mail.mdt.net.au>
  To  : Paul Schulz <pauls@CAEmrad.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:55:24 +091800

Re: Summary - IDE CD Burners under Linux

Hi Paul,
	From my own experience having worked with a few burners
on PC's I've had to work on, I can say that SCSI is definitely
the better choice.  Better reliability and able to burn at
faster speeds.  If you have an IDE/ATAPI burner I'd strongly
suggest you make it the ONLY DRIVE on the controller.  This will
stop much of the drive interference that can occur when the
other drive on the same line needs to be accessed.  My
observations are that they generally work best as the master on
the second IDE interface (/dev/hdc), with no slave drive,
although a minor few do prefer being the slave (without a master).

I've had a couple of burners that wouldn't work properly (read
'lots of coasters') until I made this change; and then worked
flawlessly.

Hope this helps.
Don

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 09:08:23AM +0930, Paul Schulz wrote:
> Quick summary of the responses I received..
> 
> --IDE--
> 
> Andrew Burrow <alburrow@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
>   Panasonic IDE CD-R 8R/4W IDE drive
>   No problems with Drive
>   Some configuation issues with SCSI emulation, and options for
>   mkisofs.
>   Kernel report: hdc: MATSHITA CD-R CW-7582, ATAPI CDROM drive
>   Coaster count: ?
> 
> "Evan Bourlotos" <evan@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
>   Sony CD-RW 100e 24R/4W/2RW, IDE drive  
>   $325 - 6mths ago (October)
>   Not used under Linux - no problems under Win95/98/2k
>   Coaster Count: 4
> 
> --SCSI--
> 
> "BlackAdder" <daved@uq.net.au>
>   Panasonic (Mitsui) 20R/8W scsi burner. (Model 7503?).
>   It seems to work quite well
>   Coaster Count: 3 (under windows) + ? (from linux kernel kernel config)
> 
> Paul Schulz <paul@mawsonlakes.org>
>   Yamaha CRW4260 Rev 1.0h 6R/4W/2RW SCSI drive
>   Kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 6x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray  
>   Coaster count: too many.. (suspected hard-drive read problem)
>   Gcombust is a great tool!
> 
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