-=[ Quoting Rick Mcbroom to Cameron Hall ]=-
 CH> In time I'd like to get a writer and move some old cassette stuff
 CH> over to a better storage medium. 
 RM> I began converting my favorite vinyl to CD-R about 4 months ago.
I've never thought of doing this.  What kind of sound card are you running?
So far, the only audio I've done is to duplicate a Pink Floyd CD which
refuses to play in my living-room CD player.  The CD-R copy plays fine.
 RM> One caveat: resist the temptation of low-priced IDE CD-R burners, and
 RM> get a top-quality SCSI unit. I bought an Philips OmniWriter internal
 RM> (IDE), and while the price was right, you definitely get what you pay
 RM> for. If I had it to do over again, I'd gut my system and install all
 RM> SCSI devices. Yeah, it'd have tripled the cost, but it's worth it in
 RM> the long run.
I have a Memorex CD-RW, which is IDE, and the cheapest of the cheap.  What's
the problem with IDE?  The only difficulty I'm having is finding software
for it, especially something to make this drive an effective hard drive
backup.
On IDE HARD drives in general:
Don't run anything slow if you want to use it as a source for a CD-ROM.
You may get buffer underruns.  Ultra DMA-33 drives appear to work the
best.  I use a Fujitsu, but that doesn't mean they're the best.
Also, "Multimedia optimized" hard drives are a good idea.  These drives don't
do thermal recalibrations, so there's one less thing to interrupt a session.
                                Phil
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