COMPATIBLE SCSI CDRW

[wa...@my-deja.com]

Putting together a new system, Compact deskpro
series, PIII, 128mb Ram. Will use SCO OpenServer
5.x., yet to pick scsi controller (adaptec 2940
or 29160).
The client would like a CD-RW (scsi)installed.
I've been trying to verify hardware
compatibility. I have checked sco.com,
aplawarence.com and dejanews archive. I can find
plenty of references to cd, cdr, but not cd-rw.
Does any one have a recommendation of a
compatible cd-rw, or focus me torwards some
references I might be able to obtain the
information I need?
Thanks in advance!

Gene

RTSC
Ft. Lewis, WA

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[Jean-Pierre Radley]

wa...@my-deja.com propounded (on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:38:57PM +0000):

| Putting together a new system, Compact deskpro
| series, PIII, 128mb Ram. Will use SCO OpenServer
| 5.x., yet to pick scsi controller (adaptec 2940
| or 29160).
| The client would like a CD-RW (scsi)installed.
| I've been trying to verify hardware
| compatibility. I have checked sco.com,
| aplawarence.com and dejanews archive. I can find
| plenty of references to cd, cdr, but not cd-rw.
| Does any one have a recommendation of a
| compatible cd-rw, or focus me torwards some
| references I might be able to obtain the
| information I need?
| Thanks in advance!

When I went shopping for this, I had in hand a list from
http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/

--
JP

[box986]

I was in the same boat few weeks ago, looking for CD-Writable
softwares, SCSI CD-RW drives, and found this website including
cdrecord, and a listing of recommended CD-RW drives;
http://www.sco.com/skunkware/cdrecord/SCO-NOTES.html

..shb

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[Jeff Liebermann]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:32:05 -0700, box986
<sbaoNO...@voltdelta.com.invalid> wrote:

>I was in the same boat few weeks ago, looking for CD-Writable
>softwares, SCSI CD-RW drives, and found this website including
>cdrecord, and a listing of recommended CD-RW drives;
> http://www.sco.com/skunkware/cdrecord/SCO-NOTES.html

I was in a similar boat last month. My boat almost sank in yet another
"learn by destroying" exercise.

I had a perfectly good working system with an 12x cdrom and a 2x cd-rw
burner. I could copy cd's just fine, albiet slowly. Then, I got a nice
new HP 9300(?) 10x cd-rw burner. One problem: I could only copy cd's at
2X speed. Anything faster would create underflows and trash the copy.
Tinkering with cdrecord did nothing useful.

I assumed (assumption, the mother of all screwups) that a 10x burner
would not need a source drive that's faster than the destination cd-rw
drive. Wrong. This derrangement does not give the CPU enough time to do
whatever CPU's do during the copy process. If the CPU gets busy, the
destination drive gets starved for data and the cd goes in the trash.
Replacing the ancient 12x source drive with a not so ancient 32x cdrom
drive solved the problem.

Make sure the source cdrom drive, for a copy is considerably faster than
the destination burner.

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