On 11/26/05 01:01 pm Don{ald} O. Woodall tossed the following 
ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

>  >Hello
>  >  Currently the highest rated DVD burner according to several sources is
>  >found here
> 
>  >http://www.plextor.com/english/products/716A.htm
> 
>  >These Plextor 716A's have been reputed by more than one site or magazine
>  >to be able to record at up to 8-speed on 2x media!  I have personal
>  >experience with one as well and it is truly extraordinary and can be had
>  >from some outlets at a fraction of Plextor's list price.  Check
>  >pricewatch.com if you want extreme quality, versatility and reliability.
>  >BTW I have no affiliation...just a fan.

>      You had me ALL EXCITED!!! there, for a minute.  Then I
> realized that 716A; A stood for ATAPI.  I thought you were
> telling us that Plextor had finally come out with a SCSI
> DVD drive.

I have the earlier one, the PX-708A, the only IDE/ATAPI device in this 
machine. The firmware is one level out of date (I have to move the drive 
to a Windozzze machine to do an update because the update is in the form 
of a Windozzze [or Mac] executable), but it works fine with RSJ.

The PX-716A handles dual-layer media as well. Mine handles only 
single-layer media.

(I prefer SCSI hard disks if for no other reason than that they are not 
just the same as the IDE drive but with a different interface. They are 
designed for heavy-duty commercial use rather than just 
throw-it-out-and-buy-a-new-one-there-was-nothing-important-on-it-anyway 
home use. but I'm not going to waste money trying to preserve the SCSI 
purity of my machine if all I'm doing is buying an ATAPI drive and 
sticking an adapter between it and the SCSI bus. Using an ATAPI burner 
is actually reducing the load on the SCSI bus.)

-=-
Alan


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