Planning to get a CDRW Drive

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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
> 
> 
> 
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