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Re: CD-writer -- SCSI or IDE?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Dec 2 20:03:20 1998
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 19:38:28 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Keith Bennett wrote:
> hi,
>
> another CD-writer buying opinion poll here.
>
> here's the story:
>
> about 2 months ago i bought myself a phillips cdd3610 cd-rw.
> i really like it - only problem is i couldn't get it working on linux.
> my mum then decides to buy it off me for my dad for christmas so
> that i can replace it with a scsi one.
> this morning, however, i find that i am able to get it working under
> linux after all!
>
> my question then is:
>
> when i buy my new drive should i get a scsi one or just get the
> same as i got before?
>
> the pros of sticking with my current drive are:
>
> 1) about 70 UKP cheaper.
> 2) no need to install a scsi controller.
> 3) i already know it works.
>
> the pros of getting a scsi cd-rw:
>
> 1) i can get my other 24-speed cdrom working again.
> 2) all the software seems to be geared towards it.
>
> at the moment the ide drive seems to be winning.
>
> can anyone persuade me otherwise?
1. With a scsi CD reader and writer, you can
burn a cd directly from another. That's very
tricky or impossible with IDE.
2. You would be getting a scsi controler, which will
open many other doors for you - like scsi hard drives,
scanners, zip drives and so on.
Scsi is a multitasking bus that the scsi card runs.
IDE is singletasking that the CPU has to run.
Scsi controlers and disk drives have come down in
price too.
There is no question - scsi is far superior in many ways.
IDE was designed for cheapness, then patched.
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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