Re: CD writer (finally) - What does LUG recommend?

[Jason Greenwood]

I have used several types of IDE burners with Linux. All have worked, 
and worked well. The IDE-SCSI emulation seems to be fairly well hammered 
out  nowadays and is automagically configured by most distro's. If not, 
run K3B (CD Burning Program) setup and it will autodetect and setup your 
burner for you as well as set the parameters in the fstab.

I have used Aopen, Acer, HP and and a few others. I currently run an 
Aopen 20/10/40 and have not had any trouble since I bought it about 6 
months ago. I got mine from Dove electronics.

My preferred burning programs are K3B and eRoaster and for ripping, 
nothing beats RipperX IMHO. Once you install the MP3 Encoder, encoding 
MP3's with RipperX is as simple as telling it to encode MP3 instead of 
the default Ogg Vorbis in it's config panel.

Regards,

Jason

Yuri de Groot wrote:
Hi all,

I'm finally getting a CD writer because now my wife sees a use for it too and 
wants to buy me one for my birthday (Yay!)

I've decided and internal IDE writer is my best bet (thoughts on this?)
I remember reading somewhere that I need to pass a kernel parameter that makes
the kernel treat that IDE drive as a SCSI drive, and after that it should 
work.
Is there anything else you guys think I should know?

Also - and most importantly - what brands are you using and where in 
Christchurch did you buy them?

I must get this to work well, smoothly and painlessly to convince my wife not 
to listen to her MS-Windows(tm) promoting brother, but rather to her wise 
linux promoting husband.

Cheers
Yuri