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Based on my personal experience with one drive.  I have had a great
experience with the Yamaha 6x4x16sz.  I know alot of others here have had
problems, but I guess I've been lucky.  I am in my 3rd year of owning the
drive, and I burn approx. 50 CDRs per month.  I don't bother with CDRW.
Setting up the scsi card and the drive have been the easiest hardware
installation (outside of RAM) I have ever completed.   As far as playstation
backups, I have not been able to backup 2 of them.  One of them is a Gundam
wing PS2 game.   When I put it in the CDROM drive, it just kept on spinning
and locked.  I'm guessing this is some time of copy protection.  I have
backed up approx. 50 PS and PS2 game at 6x with no trouble at all.  The most
trouble I have had, has been software related with EZCD 5.x.  I use Win 98SE
os, so the problems are not confined to Win2000.


"WereCow" <boing@waste.org> wrote in message
news:3C1C6A6A.EB7660E6@waste.org...
> Can somebody give *qualified* advice on which SCSI CD-RW (10X or
> faster) drives are best?
>
>  By "best" I mean I'm looking for _excellent adherence_ to SCSI
> standards, all the usual RAW; DAO; SAO and error handling features etc,
> great firmware and support, reliable mech, very good Termination
> handling.  Broad multiplatform support (Amiga, linux, Windows, Mac)
> would be nice. :-)
>
>  I was going to go with Plextor's SCSI model but learned that thanks to
> pressure from entertainment interests, they neutered their firmware so
> that it can't copy things as well. (I'm also trying to avoid Yamaha if
> possible.)
>
> A good price from a reputable source wouldn't be bad either :-)
>
> Feel free to email me if you don't want to post to the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Boing