DVD R/W et. al.

[dhml at comcast.net (David Hummel)]

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.

-David