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DVD R/W et. al.



On Tuesday 19 April 2005 11:38 am, David Hummel wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:59:30AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > I have an older SCSI CD-R in my system, but under the 2.6 kernel, my
> > SCSI card is no longer supported.
>
> This seems unlikely.  All of my legacy SCSI stuff works fine under 2.6.
> I'm not aware of any drivers being deprecated/removed in 2.6.
>
> > Since this is my only remaining SCSI device, I was thinking of getting
> > a DVD writer.  I haven't researched them, but I would like some
> > personal opinions of what successes or failures you might have had.
> > I'd probably get an IDE drive.
>
> You might want to wait a bit until the new dual-layer DVD-R drives and
> media are cheaper and more widely available.
My SCSI card is an Advansys. I haven't spent a lot of time on it. 
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman at hp.com>
Partner Technology Access Center (contractor) (PTAC-MA)
Hewlett-Packard Co.
550 King Street LKG2a-X2
Littleton, Ma. 01460
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