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 ---------------------------- Peter Stokes Ashlyn Computer Services Ltd Tel: +44 (0)1636-627900 Mbl: +44 (0)7977-532320 Fax: +44 (0)1636-627909 ---------------------------- _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Mar 23 09:28:37 2004
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