[plug] DVD burner

[Nathan Alberti]

Milan Pospisil wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>                I am currently thinking about buing a DVD burner(LITEON 8X DVD+/-RW SPEED) from MCG (http://www.mcgtech.com.au/shopframe.asp) 
>  Are there any known issues/problems as to Linux compatability of this DVD burner(or any other one for that matter) or anything I should beware of before I buy?
>  The machine considered is: Abit NF7 S mobo, AMD Athlon XP 2.5Ghz, nVidia Ge Force MX 440 v.card, 512 Mb RAM...

Yea, Depending on your distro of choice the NF7 (nforce) MB can be a 
real pain in the ass to get working. If your using a Vanilla Kernel you 
need to apply a few patches (or 2.6.6 seems to have things sorted pretty 
well) to avoid some really annoying random lockups.

Nathan.