I have used the following 16x/8-10x/40x cdrw's  with no problem.

HP 9700
LiteOn 16x
Yamaha 16x

What vendor does Dell use?

-Connie Sieh
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory


On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Tom Georgoulias (rn0621) wrote:

> Margaret Doll wrote:
> >
> > I am likely to buy a Dell Precision Workstation 340.  I
> > wanted to purchase the 16x/10x/40x  ide cd Read-write disk that
> > advertised with it.  However, Dell says that Red Hat linux does not
> > have the drivers for the 16x cd.
> >
> > On the RedHat hardware compatibility pages for Dell stations,
> > I see only the Sony CD-RW CRX140E as being compatible.  These are an
> > old model of the cd-rw.
> >
> > Does any one have any experience with this drive on RH. linux?
>
> I am successfully using a Plextor W1610a 16x10x40 drive on RH 7.1 and
> haven't had any problems getting the drive to burn at max speeds.  I'm
> not sure which brand of CD-RW Dell is bundling in the Precision 340, but
> I just thought you might like to know that the Sony model listed on RH's
> site isn't the only one that works.  Also, you can find some great tips
> for setting up CD-RWs here:
> http://www.nber.org/cdrecord.html
>
> Hope this helps.
> -Tom
>
>
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