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</head><BODY BGCOLOR="#F0F0F0"><p><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:58:09 -0400, Ken Morley wrote:<br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">> I plan to setup a Red Hat Enterprise ES3 server and use a CD-RW</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">> drive for occasional backup. I'm trying to be very thorough before</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">> I order equipment...</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">> Are most IDE/ATAPI CD-RW drives directly supported for writing by</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">> RH ES3 or is something special required? If they are not</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">> universally supported for writing, can anyone recommend a specific</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">> drive that works or is available wih drivers, etc.?</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">> Thanks very much!</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';"><br/><br/>AFAIK, all IDE/ATAPI CDRWs are supported under RH - the only thing that Ive ever had to configure was ide-scsi emulation (just add an extra argument to the bootloader).</SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">IMO, K3B is the best app available - take a look at www.k3b.org, the site also has loads of info for CDRW on Linux.</SPAN></p>
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<p><SPAN style="font-family:'Tahoma';">HTH<br/>Jeff<br/></SPAN></p>
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