Russell Coker wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:40:31 Trent W. Buck wrote:
My knee-jerk reaction is:
WTF why are you using all those long-dead buses? A brand-new SATA burner is $20. It's faster and cheaper to try that before debugging an old PATA or SCSI burner.
Except if your motherboard has PCI-X and SCSI it probably predates ubiquitous SATA, so you'd have to replace the motherboard and probably CPU as well, and now I just want to go cry in a corner. I have a stack of DVD drives that I don't immediately need. If anyone needs drives I could bring 2 of the type you prefer (IDE or SATA) to the next LUV meeting, then you can return the one that's least suitable for your purposes.
Russell that is very generous of you; I might try Trent's suggestion of coupling a R/W SATA burner to a SATA HD. These drives are definitely working or just possibly working ? Main problem would be the logistics as I have a permanent clash with the monthly LUV meeting; and the Beginners SIG is week-ends I seem to recall ?; when I'm often working ! Perhaps I should just try ComputerBank as they are just around the corner ? regards Rohan Mcleod