My first CD burner was a SCSI 4/4/16 Yamaha drive...failed in less than a year. I sent it back for warranty service after dealing with an extremely rude customer service rep. When I got it back, the drive tray would not open all the way and would instead jam. I opened it up and fixed the problem (bent support) and the drive worked after that. At least it did for another 6 months, whereupon it quit working again (basically would not burn CD-Rs that anything, including that drive, could read, regardless of the media quality).
So I decided it was time for a new drive. Being the retard I am, I spent $250 on another Yamaha SCSI CDRW drive, this time a 16/10/32 model. It's been about two years, and I once again regret my decision...although it is not as bad as the first drive, this one will not burn CDRs readable in other drives unless I do it with the absolute best media available and at a max speed of 8x.
About 8 months ago I got a Dell inspiron notebook that came with a TEAC 16/10/32 CDRW drive. This thing works perfectly, not a single problem. Now I do all my burning on it, leaving my expensive Yamaha crap aloneb.
So basically I also could care less that Yamaha has quit making CDRW drives. Good riddance.
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned already, but David Ranch's IP-masq'ing mini-HOWTO really helped me...I play StarCraft, Quake2, Quake 3 Arena, use AOL IM, ICQ (file transfers can be made to work), and more. Probably the main thing that will help you is IP portforwarding... In any case, check out the HOWTO... IP masq mini-HOWTO
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My first CD burner was a SCSI 4/4/16 Yamaha drive...failed in less than a year. I sent it back for warranty service after dealing with an extremely rude customer service rep. When I got it back, the drive tray would not open all the way and would instead jam. I opened it up and fixed the problem (bent support) and the drive worked after that. At least it did for another 6 months, whereupon it quit working again (basically would not burn CD-Rs that anything, including that drive, could read, regardless of the media quality).
So I decided it was time for a new drive. Being the retard I am, I spent $250 on another Yamaha SCSI CDRW drive, this time a 16/10/32 model. It's been about two years, and I once again regret my decision...although it is not as bad as the first drive, this one will not burn CDRs readable in other drives unless I do it with the absolute best media available and at a max speed of 8x.
About 8 months ago I got a Dell inspiron notebook that came with a TEAC 16/10/32 CDRW drive. This thing works perfectly, not a single problem. Now I do all my burning on it, leaving my expensive Yamaha crap aloneb.
So basically I also could care less that Yamaha has quit making CDRW drives. Good riddance.
I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned already, but David Ranch's IP-masq'ing mini-HOWTO really helped me...I play StarCraft, Quake2, Quake 3 Arena, use AOL IM, ICQ (file transfers can be made to work), and more. Probably the main thing that will help you is IP portforwarding... In any case, check out the HOWTO... IP masq mini-HOWTO