Does anybody make an internal SCSI DVD+/-RW drive? I've been searching the internet for hours and have come up empty handed. SCSI CD-RW drives are readily available, it suprises me that nobody seems to make SCSI DVD burners. Before jumping into the SCSI vs IDE debate let me just say that it's not a matter of speed. IDE is well capable of handling the data rates for DVD burning, SCSI would just do it with less system overhead. I don't NEED a SCSI DVD burner, but I've got a nice SCSI card and thought it would be nice. It's looking like I'm just gonna have to settle for IDE though. Anybody seen one?

Did you check the Plextor website. They would be the most likely.

I own a PCI/IDE Promise Ultra 100 card that my DVD-RW is plugged into and it identifies my DVD-RW as a SCSI. It doesn't rely on the cpu to do all of the work. Does that mean it is faster then plugging it into the IDE 1 or 2? Hmmm??? YO

OtheHill, Checked with Plextor, they make a nice SCSI CD-RW but all the DVD burners are IDE. YOYO, It's probably just detecting it as SCSI because it's on a seperate card. It is probably working faster than if you had it on the same bus as your hard drive. Essentially with IDE you can only have one device on the bus active at once and it can tend to hog the bus and can use a lot of CPU time. If you've got your IDE drive on a completely different IDE bus than your hard drive it doesn't really matter if it hogs that bus because nothing else is trying to use it. Newer IDE protocols also use a lot less CPU overhead than before so it's not really a huge deal like it used to be. With SCSI the controller card handles most of the overhead and the devices can share the bus a lot better. This way if you're burning a CD and the bus gets interrupted by your hard drive or some other system activity you are less likely to make a coaster because the CD can regain control of the bus more quickly. I've never had trouble with IDE burners because I let the system idle while burning CD's. With SCSI I could probably get away with using the computer normally. Naturally I wouldn't want to play a game or anything, but I could still do more. They make converters that allow you to put IDE devices on a SCSI bus. I wonder if that would work? I know the drive would probably work, but would the burning software be able to detect it?