Hey, its your call. As far as i'm concerned there are Plextor & Yamaha burners, and then there's everything else.
--- David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On October 3, 2001 07:09 pm, Net Llama wrote: > > 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 > > The LiteOn model shows up as working under linux (in the > linux-mandrake > hardware database as working). The cd-record homepage also suggests > that all > cd-writers produced in 1999 or earlier are supported. Its just the > burn-proof that I'm worried about. > > > 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. > > Cheaper when you figure in the exchange rate, yes.... but if I've got > my > calculations right the thieves at the border will drive the price of > that > drive far over the cost of the LiteOn > > On October 3, 2001 07:36 pm, Chang wrote: > > yes, and it has to be priced right to become an essential item. > > LiteOn is a well-received item here in Shamshiopo, Hongkong. > > It's cheap and works fine. I planned on taking a 24w model this > Xmas > > to replace my 2-year-old Panasonic 4w CDR. > > > > But it's definitely not the best (which means expansive brands > > likeYamaha and Plextor). > > Seems to be a slight difference of opinion here. > > BTW.... I found the following note regarding Lite-On drives (following > links > from the cdrecord homepage) at > http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq05.html#S5-1-43: > "Some of the drives appear to be based on Plextor units." > > The reviews I've found of the drive have seemed generally positive, > although > there may be some issues in the quality of any DAE done... but then > again the > purpose of this drive would mainly be to write not read.... I've got a > cd-rom > to do the other fun stuff. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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
