RE: [WinMac] CD burners?

From: Dan Schwartz (Expresso[at]snip.net)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 11:27:12 PDT

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            No, I'm *not* crying "I told you so" about IEEE-1394 (Firewire) CD-R decks:
    Many people have fallen for the marketing hype. [It's not your fault - It's
    the marketing suits...]

            Maybe in a year or so when the sharp "bleeding edge" has been dulled will I
    change my opinion; but just as it took the original Astarte Toast Pro a
    while to rev up to v2.0.6 to become robust it will take a while - Including,
    as Leonard correctly points out - for driver "updates" to be rolled out and
    regression tested, will the "the wave of the future for storage devices!"
    become a reality.

            In the meantime, "save the trees!" :)

            Cheers!
            Dan

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: winmac-errors@lists.best.com
    > [mailto:winmac-errors@lists.best.com]On Behalf Of Peter Thomas
    > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 1:26 PM
    > To: winmac@lists.best.com
    > Subject: RE: [WinMac] CD burners?
    >
    >
    > I know Dan will say "told ya so!" but...
    >
    > We've stayed with SCSI and an older version of Adaptec Toast as Firewire
    > CD-Rs and the new rev of Toast have been very unpredictable for us.
    >
    > just my 1 cent, after uncle sam took the other... :-P
    >
    > -peter
    >
    > At 12:35 PM Thursday -0400, Dan Schwartz wrote:
    >
    > > I would "bite the bullet," install a SCSI card and go the SCSI
    > > CD-R route.
    > >There's been all sorts of FireWire & USB problems working well
    > with CD-R...
    > >It's not a mature technology. OTOH, SCSI is quite robust.
    > >
    > > Just my 2 cents after 5 years of burning CD's...
    > > Dan
    > >

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