[lug] CD R/RW advice

[jdavis]

On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 14:12, D. Stimits wrote:
> 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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I have had a few boxes with CDRW and DVD units. I have never had any
problems with Plextor, TDK or LG. Actually , I have used a few more
like whatever hp and pre hp compaq put in ther boxes, all worked
great.

HTH,
jd