[lug] CD R/RW advice

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

First of all, the Linux CD-Writing HOWTO
(http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html) is your friend (or,
in this case, your friend's friend :-).  Having said that, here is my
experience.

I've had a Yamaha 2100EZ (IDE) for a year-and-a-half.  At the time I
bought it, I also picked one up for my parents' Win2K box.  I have
burned music and data discs (I have yet to successfully burn a VCD in
Linux).

Since I have figured everything out, I haven't really had any Linux-
specific problems.  However, as I have said before on this list (I
think), I'm not really happy with my drive, as it's way too loud
(when reading) and trying to burn at the advertised maximum speed
yields a coaster.

Howver, as anyone will tell you, most (if not all) CD burning software
for Linux expects SCSI hardware, so if you're running an IDE drive, you
have to use SCSI emulation.

Is this the sort of answer you were looking for?

-d

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 at 14:12 -0700, D. Stimits soliloquized thusly:
> A non-linux friend is interested in setting up a linux box with a CD 
> R/RW (and I am kind of curious about a similar thing with DVD R/RW), but 
> I couldn't offer much advice since I've never had a CD burner (the only 
> one I have experience with setting up is an HP on Win 2K that constantly 
> dies from driver problems). Is there any general rule of thumb or 
> specific advice I can pass along to him? For example, "IDE usually 
> works", or a given brand is often good or bad? I think a big point on 
> any advice would be something that doesn't take a lot of painful install 
> steps for (relatively speaking). The friend is rather computer-savvy, 
> but not a programmer and very little knowledge of linux...he understands 
> hardware fairly well.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi DOT com
> 
> 

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