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SCSI Burner

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cliftonite

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Hey guys, I have decided that I can no longer burn another cd using an IDE burner I was wondering if it would be any better if i bought a SCSI burner. What exactly would the SCSI burner give me that an IDE drive wouldnt? Would I now be able to multitask instead of being crippled for the 4 to 5 min that it takes to write a cd? If i get a scsi burner I would get the Yamaha Yamaha CRW-F1ZS link . Also if i got this drive, which adapter would I have to buy? Thanks for your advice guys
 
Note that, unless they took a U-turn back to their old traditions, Yamaha SCSI burners are IDE units with an IDE-to-SCSI dongle slapped on. So, as much as I hate to say this, as long as you have an IDE channel to put nothing but the writer onto, there is no gain in moving this particular unit onto SCSI. If your system is so stuffed that you'd have to put the writer into a master/slave arrangement with another drive, then SCSI is your friend. This sentence is all wrong if Yamaha came back to producing REAL SCSI units.

regards, Peter
 
The Sanyo BP5 is the fastest (24/10/40) real SCSI CD-RW on the market. As for SCSI card, any Ultra SCSI with or w/o BIOS will do.
 
The Sanyo BP5 is the fastest (24/10/40) real SCSI CD-RW on the market
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How would the yamaha perform with respect to IDE/SCSI? Would it perform just as well as the sanyo or would it perform as an IDE burner?
 
I think Tseng's remark about "real" SCSI is in reference to the fact that the Yamaha is an IDE drive with a SCSI adapter bolted onto the back of it. I have no idea if this means that the Yamaha SCSI drives won't perform like a "real" SCSI drive or not. I've seen several people ask this question on a few of the CDr forums and nobody's given a real answer yet. I'd conser getting one if I knew the answer.
 
Originally posted by: RalfHutter
I think Tseng's remark about "real" SCSI is in reference to the fact that the Yamaha is an IDE drive with a SCSI adapter bolted onto the back of it. I have no idea if this means that the Yamaha SCSI drives won't perform like a "real" SCSI drive or not. I've seen several people ask this question on a few of the CDr forums and nobody's given a real answer yet. I'd conser getting one if I knew the answer.
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Yeah that is what i want to find out too.
 
The difference is, IDE drives (a) can't release the bus while processing a command, and (b) can't accept and work on more than one command at a time.
Of course it stays that way when you slap a SCSI adapter on ... disconnect/reselect and tagged queuing SCSI features won't appear out of thin air, the drive must support them.

That said, there are few "real" SCSI CDRW drives that do.

regards, Peter
 
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