I'm looking at buying a burner again. I'm kind of in a bind, so I'm looking for some others with more experience on this. The last time I played with a burner of my own was with a Ricoh SCSI 2x2x4 CD-RW. Thing was great until a bad fan on a PS fried it because of the heat. Here's what I'm looking at but can't decide. USB CD-RW burner- Portable, can switch between Linux and W2k laptops/desktops. Does 2.2.x kernel support this, or would I be better off going to the 2.4? Speed isn't really an issue on this decision. Internal SCSI CD-RW burner- No IDE drive for me. I've had bad luck with the IDE burners, and want to stay SCSI. Though, I can't find any locally, the stores look at me funny when I mention that I'm looking for one. Downside is that I can't port it around as easily as I can with a laptop. Anyone have good recommendations on these or other? I'm also looking at getting a tape backup. I've been looking at the VXA systems, anyone have experience with these things? Or is there a comparable unit out there that doesn't cost $900 for a 66GB BU system? Shawn