Re: CD-RW

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Thu, 20 May 1999 15:47:36 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Alex Buell wrote:

>I'm sick of fscking tape drives, so I'm about to buy a HP-8100i IDE CD-RW.
>Is this device compatible with Linux & is it a CD-RW device (ie 500,000
>rewrites?)

The HP8100 is CDRW. I've got a 7200i, and the 8100 is the newer
drive. CDRW disks cannot be written 500000 times. They are
rated at 1000 times, which at one burn per week, would last you
20 years...

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