On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 19:49, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a DVD burner (for data backup, of course). I'm looking for > one that > is compatible with Linux, although, I assume they are just like CD-RW drives in that > respect.
As far as I know, yes they are. > > I'm confused about which one of the umpteen different types of DVD > recordable/rewritable > media/drives are the most compatible with existing drives and DVD players. I think > its > something like DVD-++--+--+R++-W+ ;) This is horrible alphabet soup stuff. I don't really understand it. Brett Holcomb passed along a good site to me a while back but I cannot find it this evening. I did find this which looks a bit helpful: http://www.ahinc.com/dvd.html > > Can anyone recommend a decent drive that would retail for <=$150 and is compatible > with > everything else? IDE interface is a must as I don't have SCSI. This is NOT a recommendation. I just got a Lite-On DVDRW LDW-411S from NewEgg.com. It ran about $125. I haven't written any disks yet as I'm just learning how to use this stuff under Linux, but it plays DVD movies in xine beautifully. > > Also, has anyone heard anything about when those nifty new dual-layer burners that > can > burn both layers of a DVD up to 9GB will be commercially available and how much they > will > run for? Not yet, but they are coming, and possibly even 18GB after that I think. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
