Next message: Welch, John C.: "Re: [WinMac] CD burners?"
Another option, for those of you with G3 PB's, (lombard/Pismo or WallStreet.
No Kanga modules), is the MCE Module burner. Although burning from another
CD can be interesting, it works quite well for me over the last month or so,
and the convenience is *very* nice.
John
On 05/25/2000 14:27, "Dan Schwartz" <Expresso@snip.net> wrote:
>
> 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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