Subj : Re: And Another Thing
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Sniper
Date : Sun May 01 2005 01:23 pm

-=> ROB MCCART wrote to ANGUS MCLEOD <=-

 SN> > I can't answer the question about Linux, as I've never had a CD Burner
  > > that would recognize in Linux.  So, my 3 current burners are all in
  > > WinXP boxes...

 AM>AFAIK, *any* ATAPI burner will work.  I certainly have never done anything
  >other than bung in whatever cheap-assed generic burner I could find, and
  >voila!  Let me check on the docu...

 RM> I'd imagine they have to be supported by the burning software.
 RM> They will be recognized as *Capable* of burning, but the specific
 RM> burner must be supported directly, at least it always was in Windows
 RM> programs. I recently had to update Nero (5) to some huge freaking
 RM> version 6 to get my new 52x burner to work..

I didn't want to argue with him on the point, but, your correct.  For
some reason, the CD-Burners I have are not supported in any of the Linux
software I have tried.  The systems see the drive as a CD-Rom, not as
a CD-RW.  



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