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Re: CDRW: SCSI vs. IDE



Eli Marmor wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I looked at the home page of cdrecord, and found warnings regarding
> both of the interfaces of CDRW: IDE (that you need the SCSI emulation
> for it), and SCSI (look at the rating table - it claims that SCSI for
> Linux is bad and almost unusable).
> 
> As one who never used CDRW under Linux (I'm going to use mainly the
> write, not the re-write), I'm confused - I never heard about so
> critical problems of CDRW under Linux. Is it so severe?  And what
> should I prefer for Linux - SCSI or IDE?

Eli,

I have used both SCSI and IDE (through SCSI emulation) CD-R drives with
Linux (Smart&Friendly and HP). I've never had a single problem.
As long as you put the drive on its own IDE channel, I see no compelling
reason to pay more for a SCSI device: throughput is hardly anissue with
CD-R drives. However, if the system is heavily loaded while burning, you
might prefer SCSI to prevent buffer underruns (not that I ever saw that
happen under Linux).

Gavrie.

-- 
Gavrie Philipson
Netmor Applied Modeling Research Ltd.

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