CD ROMS

[melott]

Hello
 I have a couple of questions about Read-write cd rom drives.  I have an A3k and It seems that anything
scsi is twice as expencive as an IDE drive.
 I have an external SCSI drive box with room for another drive.
 Can I have an IDE controler installed along with the
scsi . If so which is best?  This would also mean adding an external IDE box.
 I see only 2 software packages that support rom
 burners, which is better and does it matter which,
 SCSI or IDE?  What is EIDE??
 Also what is ment by DEO &TEO ( it was something like that) . Are they format standards, they are mentioned with "BurnIt" and the other package
 ( I don,t remember the others name).
 Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

 Mel Ott

[QuikSanz]

OK lets see, last first, it's TAO=track @ once, DAO=disk @ once. It depends on if you do 1 track or the whole CD image @ once. Burn it sure looks good but can't get it to run on my sys? The other is Make CD, My new copy has just arrived but it won't take the ser # supplied, I'm now waitin for an E-Mail from them to clear the problem. EIDE= enhanced IDE, unsure if this drive is supported, IDE cannot read & write @ the same time, SCSI can, so even though the speed of IDE comes close to SCSI speed SCSI can still perform more work if set up right.

Chris

[blobrana]

UP TO YOU!
The Eide interface is Enhanced version of Standard IDE.
The more important feature would be if it`s got burn-proof ( mem buffer) technology.

If you go SCSI then its twice as fast and you don`t need to buy an internal ide interface or external box.
Also SCSI uses less cpu power than the IDE`s ( important for slow CPUs).
TAO means `track at once` , forget about that, just make sure that it`s multisession, ( you can re-burn the same CD, at another time).

As for brands names ,PLextor make a few good drives that are supported by amiga software.

[odin]

I've got a LiteOn dangling in my peecee and it functions very well. No idea if amiga stuff supports that IDE drive.

If you're thinking of sticking a burner in an A1200 with the internal IDE i/f I would forget about it.  It'll work probably but the IDE i/f is sooooooooooooooo slow. Go for a nice SCSI DMA option.

[melott]

 Also along this line I noticed an earler post about
 a card or is it an adptor called the "ACARD" .
 It sounds like it converts SCSI to IDE. If this is so,
 then it sounds like I can use this card to plug in an
 IDE drive on the SCSI and it will work.
 Anyone know anything more about this?
 And if all this is true, where would I get the "ACARD" ??

Mel Ott

odin wrote:
I've got a LiteOn dangling in my peecee and it functions very well. No idea if amiga stuff supports that IDE drive.

I've got a 48x LiteOn in my old 1200 tower. Works ok sometimes, but I have to re-install IDEFix97 every so often because it dosen't recognise a CD when I put it in every now and again which is a pain.