Re: Need CDR/DVD reader/burner for Slack 12

Michael Black wrote:
wexfordpress (john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
My old drive is starting to act up. Need a new one. Tiger Direct has
ATA drives for
$24 and up but I am unsure about Linux compatibility. Any success
stories for under $100?

Some drives require Win XP. Are we back to the infamous Winmodem
nonsense?

Are you sure about that last? I don't know if there are such drives,
but the whole issue is often confounded by companies that list
"requirements" and don't make it clear whether they are an absolute,
or merely talking to most of the potential buyers. When I bought a 14.4K
modem, external, in 1996, the box mentioned the Mac and the Intel
machines, but said nothing about other computers. If you take
those requirements literally, then it rules out Linux or anything
else. But then, there are times when you have to have WIndows, but
there's no indication that it is an absolute, either.

One thing to watch. I bought a DVD writer a few months ago, and
was suprised when I got no sound out of it. It replaced a DVDrom
drive (ie no write), a direct replacement.

I reopened my computer, and poked around. Above the audio connector,
which was there, there was something like "reserved for future use"
or words along those lines.

I may be missing something, but the combination of no sound and those
words seems a strong indicator that the drive has no audio output. And
if this drive doesn't, then that may be a trend.

Another reason for thinking this is all those questions we see where
people complain they aren't getting any sound out of their drives, and
it turns out they have no audio cable in place, because Windows
doesn't need it (using software to extract from the data on the data
cable). Given that, I can imagine they've left off the audio output
since it wasn't being used by many anyway.

Michael

I haven't use any audio cables for any install of any CD or DVD since
about 1997. Everything plays just fine. Might have to make sure the
feed is on in KMix and the BIOS has the DMA ticked, (went away in about
1997 too!). The computer defaults to DMA (Direct Memory Addressing).

Do ensure that the CD or DVD is never on an IDE cable with a hard drive,
as the whole buss slows to ATA 33 speed.

.

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