25 Jul
2006
25 Jul
'06
11:34 a.m.
Maybe I'm behind the curve on this, but here's
something that may be
important to those of you with SCSI hardware; Plextor was praised by many as
the best/most compatible CD/DVD (esp. scsi)drives money can buy.
To the best of my knowledge, they haven't made a SCSI burner since the 16x
CD-R drive (I bought one new). I was also lucky enough to get one of their
32x CD-ROM drives for my OpenVMS system. I'm not sure if they've made any
SCSI CD-ROM drives since then, and I don't know if they made any SCSI DVD
drives. I just happen to have one of the Sun SCSI DVD-ROM drives sitting
here, and it was made by Toshiba.
Plextor SCSI drives do rock! I love the 8x Caddy drives they made years
ago, and have one in my PDP-11. Due to the limited number of CD's for a
PDP-11, most of which I've made myself, caddy drives are perfect for the
system!
Most people that require a SCSI optical drive are now resorting to using the
Acard IDE-to-SCSI adapters. I don't know if they will support 512-byte
blocks or not, as I haven't purchased one.
Zane