Why does CS discourage the use of IDE CD burners?
Here are a few good reasons: • IDE CD burners tend to consume huge amounts of CPU while burning a disk. The upshot of this is that it’s pretty easy to burn a CD coaster by doing something mildly CPU intensive (such as rendering a complex web site) while burning a CD. SCSI offloads most of this CPU intensive work to the SCSI controller in hardware, making for a more reliable CD burning experience. • Every SCSI CD burner out there will work with a normal SCSI controller. One needn’t worry about IDE CD burner support, as long as the SCSI card is supported. • The SCSI emulation subsystem in Linux is a terrible, horrible, gawdawful, hack. To get an IDE CD burner functioning one must install a driver for that specific IDE CD burner, which is then tied to a SCSI emulation system in the kernel. The CD burner then looks like a SCSI device to the end user. If you are determined to purchase an IDE CD burner please forward the quote to CS so we can verify with the vendor the specific manufacturer
