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mcnally
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response 250 of 257:
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Feb 9 04:18 UTC 2000 |
you should be able to get a DVD-ROM drive (drive only, no MPEG decoder card)
for not much more than that $50. but if you're paying $50 for a new CD-ROM
these days you're paying too much (by a factor of two, almost..)
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scott
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response 251 of 257:
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Feb 9 12:30 UTC 2000 |
Dunno. $50 seemed to be the starting price in the stores I visited yesterday.
Nice drives, I guess, with ability to deal with all manner of CD-RW and such
at purportedly high speeds. I'm starting to lean towards getting the damn
CD-RW drive. I'll need some kind of backup with better capacity than Zip
disks, and RW media is now down to $3-4.
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drew
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response 252 of 257:
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Feb 10 03:31 UTC 2000 |
The advice on the net is not to use a CDRW drive for reading CDs, as it wears
out quicker that way, and CD readers can be had cheap - at least in principle.
Occasionally Best Buy has a sale/rebate offer wherein the CDROM can be had
for $20 - occasionally $10 - after rebate. Or else try going to computer
shows.
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mcnally
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response 253 of 257:
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Feb 10 06:00 UTC 2000 |
Advice on the net is often not worth much more than you pay for it..
How quick is "quicker" [sic], anyway?
Anyway, Scott's already got a CDROM drive that he can continue using --
once he installs Linux from a more modern CD-reading device (such as the
CD-RW) and builds a new kernel..
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scott
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response 254 of 257:
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Feb 10 12:28 UTC 2000 |
Ha! Caldera tech support came through. The ultramodern "Lizard" install
couldn't handle it, but the older "Lisa" install could be prodded into
recognizing my vintage CD-ROM drive. I ended up missing out on some of the
nicer parts of graphical install and autoconfig, but I'm pretty sure I can
get what I need done without too much hassle.
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mwg
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response 255 of 257:
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Feb 10 17:13 UTC 2000 |
Re#248: Yep, bad wording on my part, I meant borrow an IDE CD-ROM drive.
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gull
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response 256 of 257:
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Feb 10 20:25 UTC 2000 |
By the time you wear out a CD-RW drive reading CDs with it, it'll probably
be obsolete anyway. I don't see why they'd wear out quicker than CD-ROM
drives, and I have some of those that are ten years old that still work. A
"real" CD-ROM drive will probably have faster throughput, though. CD-ROM
drives out to 32x can be had for under $50, and most writers seem to be 12x
or less. On the other hand, the only difference I've ever noticed between
8x and 32x, really, is that the 32x drives are much noisier.
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pfv
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response 257 of 257:
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Feb 10 21:06 UTC 2000 |
Yah, the "fast" drives sound like a lost turbine, looking for
an aircraft to eat.
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