> So how well do IDE burners work with Linux?  Do I have to use SCSI emulation
> to make it work?

Yes, you have to use ide-scsi. Which would work great, but they manage
to break it every few kernel versions. :P I was using kernel 2.2.15 for,
ummm, tens of burns and never had a problem. But along came .16 and .17
and suddenly I get random SCSI errors that abort the burn. If I was
trying to burn an entire disk I was lucky if it would complete.

I've since moved to 2.4-test9 and test10 and have had no problems
burning CDs. Go fig. :P

> My SCSI burner just died, and I'm thinking of buying the TDK VeloCD from
> buy.com.  $259 + 50pk CDR's, and a $50 rebate.  Does the burning software
> have to know about the Burn-Proof feature for it to work?

Even without burn-proof, IDE burners work quite well these days, they
all have 1-2mb buffers. Mine doesn't have burn-proof, yet I've tried
very hard to make it harf but have never been able to. I've got a
Philips PCA460RW, 4-2-16x burner.

And yes, burn-proof has to be supported by the burner software, but if
you look at cdrecord's home page it has burn-proof logos pasted all over
it, so I think its supported. ;)