looks like im going to be getting a new cd-burner soon to replace my Yamaha 0x/0x/16x unit. i'm buying someone's old unit from them for $90. since ive been having money problems the past 3 years or so, i will be paying in installments.
i never realized how much a cd-burner meant to me until mine broke. my burner sometimes sat a few weeks without me using it, but i always knew it was there if i did want to use it.
until i get my new burner, a friend has lent me his external USB cd-burner.
for anyone trying to connect right this second, my server/bbs is down. after my scsi-based burner died and i was going to buy this one dude's IDE burner, i decided it was time to move some stuff out of my main system and into the server to "air out" my main PC since its been overheating recently. i pulled my 56k modem (my only ISA piece of hardware), my scsi-2 card, my internal zip drive, my USB webcam, and my 6.4 gig hd out of my main PC and put it all in/on the server. this sudden stream of new hardware to my 4-year old server has seemed to cause some problems. its down while i mess with settings, and defrag the hard drive.