[plug] ZIP/JAZ/SPARQ -- consider CD-R

[Mark Hutchison]

Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Gavin Tweedie wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone suggest any suppliers (wholesale) or retailers in perth who
> > have cheap, cd writers which go ok with linux?
> 
> I have Saturday's West handy...
> A kodak CD-R for $489.  8x-read, 2x-write.
> 'cdwrite' and 'cdrecord' support Kodaks, unless they changed the
> interface.
> 
> If i were buying now, it sounds better than a Zip drive and dozen disks.
> 
> Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
> You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't
> pick your friend's nose.
> 
> PGP ID 8B3D0765. FP: 30 07 BF 6C 9B 45 E8 C8  EA 30 4F 01 DC A2 91 88

The Kodak drive is actually a Mitsumi CR-2801TE CD-R Drive, bought one from PLC
computers. After a few teething probs has worked fine under WinDoze95, haven't
tried it unde Linux yet.

Mark.
-- 
Hutch - PERTH - W.A.