[geeks] Lunchtime poll... who here is a smoker?

[Will Mc Donald]

From: "Kurt Mosiejczuk" <kurt at csh.rit.edu>

> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Chris Byrne wrote:
>
> > I have been looking for an all in one drive like that for years, but
I've
> > never fonud a SCSI one, and since I actually use my computer while
burning
> > CD's IDE doesnt do it for me.
>
> You might try one of the Plextor IDEs with BurnProof.  When the buffer
> runs dry, the drive stops and waits for it to fill back up, and then
> resumes from where it left off.  Amazing little devices.
>

Have a look at...

http://www.storagereview.com/welcome.pl/http://www.storagereview.com/article
s/200011/20001102MP9120A_1.html

It seems that Ricoh and Toshiba do CDRW/DVD drives. And from a quick
investigation it seems that no-one does SCSI models. Shame.

Still, I would've thought you'd be OK supplying data to an IDE writer from a
SCSI source. Espescially if the BurnProof/JustLink technology does exactly
what it's supposed to.

Will.