[lug] Cd burner recommendations

[LittleViggy at alum.manhattan.edu]

I haven't tried this one with Linux, though through VMWare, it does recognize 
the unit.  I have a Sony CRX160E that I would *not* recommend!!!  It seems that 
unit is very sensitive to the CD it's reading.  Some CD's are LOUD when it's 
reading from them, and others are so quiet you can't tell that the unit is 
actually reading the CD.

It seems that it's very sensitive to the "balance" of the CD itself.  While 
it's still working, I'm worried that it'll break down sooner than normal.  
Since this is not my personal unit (it's a work machine; bought and paid for by 
the company I'm working for), I'm not in a big rush to replace it.

I, myself, bought an ACER model for my personal machine.  While I haven't tried 
it with Linux, it's a fairly nice unit.  I don't care for their burning 
software (Windows only).  It leave a lot to be desired, especially after using 
Adaptec's s/w (now Roxio EZCDCreator).  It's a 40/10/16 (40 read, 10 re-write, 
16 write); and is very quiet all the time!

Viggy

Jeffrey Siegal wrote:
> 
> I like the Yamaha drives in terms of functionality and performance, but
> I've had two out of three of them crap out on me (on different
> systems).  Maybe I've just been unlucky, but I think they have some
> reliability issues.
> 
> I'd like to hear some opinions of non-Yamaha drives, since I'm ready to
> try something else on the new system I'm configuring now (a dual Athlon,
>
probably).

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