[rescue] Good day's grabs

Rick Hamell hamellr at heorot.1nova.com
Sun Aug 11 11:32:11 CDT 2002


> Linux includes SCSI-IDE emulation, which allows a program to issue
> SCSI commands to an IDE CD-ROM burner. All those wonderful *nix utilties,
> (cdrdao,cdparanoia, cdrecord,etc) run on a cheapo Pentium system
> with a cheap IDE burner. N.B. the cheaper ones have more features :-)
> 
> On the input side, look at grip, a gpl'ed front end for ripping/mp3'ing/filing
> cd's.

	And at $50 a hit, IDE drives are practically throw away when they
do go bad. (usually after about two years of heavy use.)

	Rick



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