What is the best CD-RW drive for an Amiga 2000HD?

[miles]

x56h34

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I've been thinking of getting myself an A2000 just for kicks. I only have A4000 of the big box Amigas at the moment. I have all the necessery extras to upgrade it too. Picasso IV (not sure whether to sell or keep it...and how would I fit it in? I think it doesn't fit in A2000 without some major hacking), 4.3GB SCSI 2 IBM Hard Drive, 10 new OEM packaged 12X Sony SCSI-2 CD-R
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Major hacking?  How does breaking the card in half sound?  The Video
slot on the 2000 is not lined up with the zorro, the flickerfixer bit
is on the back end of the card, you snap it and run a wee cable
between that and the PIV bit!  

Data from orgininal review in old AMiGA mag (AF??), other feel free to
correct if wrong :-)

My Opinion:
It is a spooky thought to snap a Picasso card in half!  A Blizzard 060
PIV and lots a ram makes the 2000 a grunty workhorse.  Go for it!

[miles]

DoomMaster,

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I already have a Yamaha CRW4416S CD-RW drive. It is installed in my 2nd Amiga 2000HD,
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Well dude, you have a Yamaha drive that you know how well it works,
put it in the other A2000 and see if it gets the results you want,
unless you have done that already.  If you have tried it was it not
fast enough?  Was it the problem or was the data throughport of your
controller not fast enough?  Could the 030 be the problem?  Might you
need a bit more power to do what you want?

My opinion:
It might be that all these factors combined are the reason you cannot
get the preformance you require or is the drive just too slow?  If the
drive is the "weak" link see if you can get a store with a good return
policy, as SCSI is expensive, but as long as you set SCSI up correctly
any SCSI drive should work.  It might be a different story if the
software you intend to use does not work correctly.  If the drive is
NOT the bottleneck in what you are trying to do then you would do well
to look at a card like the Blizzard 060 with SCSI.

I do hope that I have given you some ideas and maybe some points to
think about.  Do let us know more details of just what you are
attempting and the software being used, someone might be able to offer
more help.