11/2    Thinking about getting a CD writer. Is it necessary to get a read
        only CD player and a writer, or can I just use one CD writer w/
        a lot of HD space?
        \_ You can get away with one CD player. However, if you ever wanna
           make CD-to-CD copies, having a CD-ROM and a CD-R makes it a lot
           simplier. of course, you can still do it with just a CD-R, but
           it's more time-consuming.
        \_ I never do it CD-to-CD, because the reader is IDE.  It doesn't
           "sound" like a bad idea to buy just a SCSI writer.
           \_ My sister's computer has an IDE DVD drive and a SCSI writer,
              and CD-to-CD works just fine.
        \_ Just use the one CD writer. Unless youre pirating software or
           something and need a huge throughput, making CD-to-CD copies
           at 4x write speed is probably only going to save you about 20
           minutes (depending on file size). Just make a disk image and
           burn it to a new CD. Hell, you can change CD's between Friends
           and Frasier.
           \_ 20 minutes?  Do the math.
        \_ Another question-- can I burn my CD 1/2 way, wait till I get the
           other half then finish burning later?
           \_No. That's a good way of getting coasters. (At least with
           conventional software).
           \_Yes. Most are quite capable of multisession writes.  You lose
           20 megs for each extra session.  Works fine without penalty for
           audio as well.
              \_ not if you plan on playing the audio CD in a regular CD player.
                 It works for computer CDROM drives, but in car or home cd
                 player, will only play tracks in the first session..
                \_And this assumes that you aren't burning an image of a CD vs.
                just data, i.e. if you want to burn a cue image of a cd you
                can't simply interrupt a burn 1/2 way and resume it later.
                 \_ if you leave the session open, you can listen to the CD
                    on your burner and add tracks later. Later, when you close
                    the session, you can listen to the tracks in your car...