[H-GEN] CD burner for Linux

[Mark Corben]

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Thanks Tony - I'll start playing!

Tony Nugent wrote:

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>On Tue Mar 11 2003 at 16:02, Mark Corben wrote:
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>>  I want to add in a cd burner to my current Pentium II system (running
>>SuSe 8.0) but am having trouble verifying what current CD burners on the
>>market are OK for Linux use.
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>As far as I am aware, if they are "standard", then they _all_ work
>with linux.
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>All scsi burners will work out of the box.
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>At the moment the ide/ATAPI drives need to be used with the kernel's
>ide-scsi driver to work with cdrecord, but native ide/atapi support
>for cdrw devices will be there in the forthcoming 2.6.x kernel.
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>>Any suggestions as what to look for ??
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>Whatever suits your tastes and budget will work just fine.  I have
>never heard of a cdrom/dvd burner that didn't work with linux.
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>Same for atapi DVD drives (you can get dvd/cdrw combos), they all
>"just work".
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>>MArk
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>Have fun!
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>Cheers
>Tony
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