On Thursday 05 February 2004 04:49, Andrew Gaffney wrote:

> 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.

I'm using a NEC ND2500 -/+RW DVD 8x writer (price about �140-�150)
It's running without any problems under Linux. I've burned a lot of
CD's and DVD's with it, and also the creation of selfmade DVD's is no
problem.

> 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?

I've read, that the price of the double-layer medias will be not much
higher than for the single-layer ones. And with a firmware upgrade it
should be possible to write these medias with a "normal" 8x writer,
because the laser of this writers should be strong enough, to burn
the second layer.
So I'm waiting for these double-layer medias, and hope the best. :)

cu

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