Well, Samsung & Acer are the only two that i've ever heard of. I've heard a lot of quality problems with Acer hardware. Samsung seems to have a decent reputation.
Have you looked at pricewatch.com yet? I see a Yamaha (which has a very good reputation) IDE 20x10x40 for $96 amd a 24x10x40 for $142. --- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know... this has been hashed out before, but technology changes. I > need to replace my old Yamaha SCSI CD-RW with a new one, probably IDE > (once I straighten out my filesystem and get rid of the 2.4GB drive). > I > mosied over to my local Best Buy here in Baltimore, and have these > fine > choices: > Digital Research Technologies: 24x, $100 > Samsung: 24x, $110 > Buslink: 24x, $100 > LG Int'l: 12x, $130 (24x, $180??) > Acer: 24x, $130 > > None, except the LG Int'l (slackware), say they support linux. > All speeds referenced are Write speeds. > > Anybody have any opinions on these brands? ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
