[plug] DVD burner

Clare Johnstone clare at cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Thu Jun 24 19:04:18 WST 2004


Hi Milan,
You maybe should read
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/

I got his product growisofs and am very pleased with it.
He discuses various types of burners.
I bought a Sony, rather fancy (double layer) but it will probably be out
of date by the time media are available.

regards,
clare

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Milan Pospisil wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:53:57 +0800
> From: Milan Pospisil <Milan.Pospisil at swantafe.wa.edu.au>
> Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] DVD burner
>
>
>
> >>>On 06/24/04 12:20pm  nathan at nathanalberti.com wrote:>>>
> 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.
>
>
> Well, I have not put the machime completly together and thus have not installed any OS as yet, but the distros on my mind are:
>  Xandros2.0, Mandrake 10.0 and possibly SuSe 9.1(if I can get it)
>                                                                                                       MP
>
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