Subj : Re: And Another Thing
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Sat Apr 30 2005 08:56 am

  Re: Re: And Another Thing
  By: ROB MCCART to ANGUS MCLEOD on Fri Apr 29 2005 19:48:00

 > AM>AFAIK, *any* ATAPI burner will work.  I certainly have never done anythin
 >   >other than bung in whatever cheap-assed generic burner I could find, and
 >   >voila!  Let me check on the docu...
 > 
 > I'd imagine they have to be supported by the burning software.
 > They will be recognized as *Capable* of burning, but the specific
 > burner must be supported directly, at least it always was in Windows
 > programs. I recently had to update Nero (5) to some huge freaking
 > version 6 to get my new 52x burner to work..

Well, no doubt there will be drives that are exceptions (and should be 
taken back to the shop, IMHO) but:

  1.5.  Supported CD-writers

  USB CD-writers are currently not supported at all. Apart from that you
  can safely assume that most newer IDE/ATAPI- and SCSI-writers work
  under Linux. Newer drives are mostly MMC-compliant and are therefore
  supported. If the SCSI-version of a particular writer works, the
  IDE/ATAPI-version will most likely work and vice versa. However, some
  people want to get a warm and fuzzy feeling by reading the exact model
  of their writer in some sort of compatibility list.  That is the
  reason why I didn't throw the following list out of the HOWTO.  Here
  is a comprehensive summary of drives reported to work with cdrecord:

	{List of 179 CD burners removed}

I'd certainly say that if you have any fairly normal CD burner, your 
chances are pretty good it will work.





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