Re: [SLUG] CD burners

[Chris MacKenzie <cmackenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jill Rowling wrote:

> I have been considering getting a CD burner for work, and want to run it on
> a *-ix box (either Linux/x86 or Solaris/Sparc) just to prevent unauthorised
> access and so I can write proper filesystems onto them. Has anyone had any
> experience with writing CDs from either *ix?

I burn cd's under linux all the time.

> In particular, is there any point using IDE vs SCSI (slow writes anyway)
> given I can use either on different machines?

I find the SCSI ones to be better, mainly due to the fact that you can
still write a CD while your IDE hdd is thrashing...and not make a
coaster *8-)

> Using a GUI based writer vs command line (some GUI writes are expensive)?
> How easy was it to mount and configure the device?

I use mkisofs & cdrecord for command line burning an X-cd Roast for
xwindows. All of them are GPL.

> Was CD-RW successful? What sort of failure rates should I be expecting from
> the media?

CD-RW works fine under *nix. In two years of burning cd's under linux I
made about two coasters.

> So far, I have looked at hardware from Ricoh and Sony.

I haven't tried Sony yet, but I'm more than happy with the Ricoh and
Yamahas.

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