[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The CD burner on my machine is getting flaky. I want to get a new one, as > well as upgrade to CD and DVD R and W. Can anyone recommend one? > > At one computer store they recommended an NEC 3550A but can I get a driver > for it? Would that be just a "Linux driver" or do I have to differentiate > between a Debian driver / MEPIS driver / Ubuntu driver and so on? > All drives are treated pretty much the same. There aren't drivers for certain drives. There may be workarounds for known bugs in certain drives though.
I was going to recommend buying a Benq DW1640, but in the middle of writing this I checked to see where it could be purchased. It seems to be off the market now. I not long ago was looking for a new dvdrw drive and read many reviews, in the end I bought the Benq drive. It has some nice new technology that lets it make educated guesses on the writing strategy to use with a certain type of media. Unlike other drives that have to have the media in a predetermined list stored in the firmware. It looks like it has been replaced by the Benq DQ60, but the DQ60 is a completely different beast, and a bad one at that. Reading further I see it has improved with newer firmware, but still should be avoided. In the next month or so it looks like a DW1650 and DW1655 will come out to properly replace the DW1640. I do see others recommending the NEC 3550a in place of the DW1640. I would say get the NEC now, or wait for a DW1650 or DW1655. There is also a NEC 4550a and a NEC 4451a, but can't find them online. Link to 3550a drives on Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=Go&DEPA=0&type=&description=3550a&Category=0&minPrice=&maxPrice=&Go.x=0&Go.y=0 Links to reviews of the DW1640: http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=14268 http://www.cdfreaks.com/article/226 http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2470&p=13 _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
