On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:50:42PM -0500, User MartinMartin G. McCormick wrote: > I am about to buy an IDE CDRW drive and a second hard > drive for a 266 megahertz Dell computer that has two extra IDE > connectors. > > I know there are a lot of good drives out there these > days so I will turn the question on its head. Are there any > particular CDRW drives to stay away from when used under Linux? > > I am asking this list because I will need to use > command-line utilities. If my understanding serves me correctly, > the IDE controllers in this system should see the new drives > after they are connected without having to do any BIOS setup. I > don't plan on trying to boot off the new drives, just use them > when the system is up and running. Thank you for any suggestions > you might have or issues I haven't thought of that you might > raise. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list