Hello - I missed the posting the first time, but would give one bit of warning. If this is your only CD/DVD device on the system, be sure that it boots the OS for system (re-)installs and recovery. We installed some CD-RWs on our Sun Blade 100 that wouldn't do a CD boot, so had to replace them with something that would. Debbie Forwarded message: > Original Question > ------------ > > Any experiences running the new multiformat DVD IDE writers such as the > Plextor on either Ultra 5/10 or Blade 100/150? > > Looking to buy one and would prefer recommendations for Sol 9 with > cdrecord etc. > > Responses > -------- > > A few responses, the following were the main ones > > ----- > We've been using the Pioneer A05, internal ATAPI drive within a > SCSI/ATAPI converter box. Some links: > > > http://www.microlandusa.com/microland/product_detail.asp?non=1&p%5Fid=ARS2000UB > > http://www.unixhub.com/docs/misc/DVD.html > > We use this with cdrecord and ProDVD (both from the same site), they > work great. > > We'll be buying a Pioneer A06 multi-format drive soon. > ---- > I'm using the Sony DRU-510A, which is DVD +/- R & RW and CDRW built in > one. I'm also using it on a Blade 100 and an Ultra 2 (with a ide-scsi > converter). Both computing platforms can boot from cdrom and record > DVD's & CD's via XCDRoast (engine is cdrecord or cdrecord-prodvd). I'm > happy with the performance. The only small problem has been blanking a > DVD +RW disk, cdrecord does not fully support this format yet. > ---- > buy a plextor. They're always well supported and very high quality. > ---- > > Resulting purchase and experience > ------------------------- > > In the end because we already had one of these on a Windows system and > it worked well, I bought the Plextor PX-708. Installed in a Ultra 5/400 > running Sol 9 with latest patches, Gnome 2.0 and installed latest > cdrecord and cdrecord-ProDVD. These all work well (turn off volmgt of > course) with the exception of mkisofs having no support for largefiles > yet. I also have cdrw working to write iso's to CD's, but did not get CD > copy of CDRW to work. I can also rip music CD's down to mp3/wav files no > problem. I have only tried DVD_R's at present as they appear to be > better supported with ProDVD and are cheaper to buy. One recommendation > I did get from a media seller was to stick with Ritech dyes on DVD-R's > as apparently not all DVD-R's work with all DVD writers. > > The one major problem I have got is that sometimes when creating an iso > copy of a cd to disk (IDE disk) I get timeouts on the disk. I used dd to > get the iso image from the CD, but am not sure if moving to SCSI disks > will help this. It does not happen every time, but is annoying. > > Thanks for your responses. > > Peter -- + Debbie Tropiano -- debbie_at_icus.com -- http://www.icus.com/personal.html + | Mommy to Nathan b: 8/17/1995, ^Sara^ b: 10/25/2000 d: 11/7/2000 & | | Leah b: 10/17/2001 a: 9/26/2002 "God shows His opposition to cancer and | | birth defects, not by eliminating them or making them happen only to bad | | people (He can't do that), but by summoning forth friends and neighbors | + to ease the burden and to fill the emptiness." -- Harold S. Kushner + _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Mar 23 09:58:33 2004
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