Hi folks, I've got a chance to get one of these somewhat cheaply. Not cheaply enough not to think about it though.
It's a Cendyne and it says it does: DVD+R DVD+RW CD-RW and a list of various CD whatever formats that looks like what my CDRW drive can already do. I've got a Thinkpad and an external USB enclosure which holds, and works with, my CDRW drive. It's only USB 1.x, so it's limited to 8x burns, but it does it. (And the DVD thingie only does 4x anyway.) The Thinkpad's bay drive reads CD and DVD, including videos (although I haven't done this in GNU/Linux yet). What's it good for? I'm not a video producer, but might make some home movies for the folks back home. I like the thought of having an install DVD of Woody instead of CDs, but it's not a high priorty. Backups are handled with my now famous, patented "two-hard-disks" system. How much utitlity is there in such a gizmo? Cheers, Bret -- bwaldow at alum.mit.edu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
