Subj : Re: And Another Thing
To   : ANGUS MCLEOD
From : ROB MCCART
Date : Sun May 01 2005 07:06 pm

RM> > 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...

AM>  1.5.  Supported CD-writers

AM>  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:
AM>        {List of 179 CD burners removed}

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

That was my point though. The drive has to be directly supported.
If it's not on the list (i.e. a new model) it may not work until the
next version of cdrecord comes out. Nero supports hundreds of drives
but when I got a new one, my 2 year old version of Nero couldn't see
it as a burner or use it, and it's just a simple LG 52x IDE CD burner.

CloneCD didn't directly support the new drive but did support one
almost that new, a 40x or something, and that seems to be happy enough
with the new drive so it depends on how much hardware/firmware changed
with the new model and if the burning program can recognize it.

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