You, sir, need to take a trip to pricewatch.com, immediately. Do not purchase that LiteOn CD burner, not only becuase LiteOn products are very poor quality, but because there are far better values available.
Variations on this theme have come up many times before, so i'll give you the short version. Yamaha & Plextor make very good quality CD burners. All others are of questionable quality, and will either: 1) not work at all under Linux 2) work very poorly, generating alot of coasters 3) fail early in their lifespans Right now i see a US$76 Yamaha CRW8824E 8x8x24 INTERNAL IDE CD-RW 8824E at pricewatch. Even with the Canadian exchange rate, its still cheaper than the one below. --- David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's becoming more and more apparently that in the modern world a > CD-RW is > almost essential. But of course there's not much money in my budget > to pick > one up so I'm looking at the low end of the market. > > A local retail store's got a LiteOn 16x10x40 cd-rw on sale for $137CDN > until > the weekend which is $2 more than my normal supplier of parts offers > for an > OEM 12x10x32 drive by the same company. > > I'm wondering if this model would be a good bet.... it only has a 2 > meg data > buffer but does have burn-proof technology by Samsung. (Is burn-proof > > supported by cdrecord and any other linux software? ...does it even > require > software support?) ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux FAQ & Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
