Subj : Re: And Another Thing
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Sniper
Date : Sun May 01 2005 01:32 pm

-=> Angus Mcleod wrote to ROB MCCART <=-

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

 AM> 	{List of 179 CD burners removed}

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

I have 3 fairly "Normal" CD Burners... They all work under Windows,
using Nero 6... <Had to upgrade to 6 for the 52X burner, so did them
all> :)  

I've also tried all 3 drives under Linux, reconfigured the system, did
all the normal stuff... the system see's the drive, recognizes it as a
CD-drive.  Under cdrecord and other programs, it says the drive is a
CD-Rom.  Nothing I've found tweaks, fixes, etc., have fixed this.  Each
is a different brand name, but, none are listed in that "List" either.

Supposedly, that list is not an all inclusive list either.

Anyway, its just a bitch... the drives work quite well under Windows...
So, I'll continue to split.



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