RE: [SLUG] CD burners

[George Vieira <georgev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm run Cd Creator 4.0 with Win NT and it runs like a dream. I find half the
times it's the PC or something else causing the coasters.

Though versions < 4.0 had ASPI problems and probably why Adaptec rewrote
them from scratch..

thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
Citadel Computer Systems P/L
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au



-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Dalton [mailto:matthewd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 7 July 2000 11:53 AM
To: Jill Rowling
Cc: SLUG
Subject: Re: [SLUG] CD burners


Jill Rowling wrote:
> 
> Regarding the Adaptec software, I would be surprised if it could NOT
create
> a CD from an image. After all, there are lots of people ripping CDs for
> various purposes...

Easy CD coaster creator can write an image to a CD. Doesn't seem to be
the most reliable software for doing so though. (I've been unfortunate
enough to have had to use it... occasionally it seems to write okay, but
will finish and then give an error saying that the write failed, and
then the disc is stuffed. Never had any problems like that under Linux.)

> 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?

Yes.

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

I have an IDE CD-RW drive at home which I use under Linux.

> Using a GUI based writer vs command line (some GUI writes are expensive)?

I use XCDROAST for all my cd burning needs. It rocks. It's free.

> How easy was it to mount and configure the device?

For Linux, Read the CD-Writing howto. For IDE drives, you have to
reconfigure the kernel to use the SCSI driver to access it.

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

CD-RW works okay. The cdrecord command has a 'blank' feature to erase
CD-RW discs. I've written them under Linux as well. Nothing special
needs to be done for the writing, only for the erasing.

Failure rates... you mean with CD-RW discs, or both CD-R and CD-RW?
I don't burn that many discs (maybe 2 or 3 in the last couple of
months)... but I can't remember the last time one failed. It's pretty
solid under Linux.

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

My drive is a Kodak.

Matthew
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