i haven't been able to boot knoppix off one yet. haven't really
bothered messing around to work out why...

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:58 AM, David Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 25/05/2008 10:55:49 PM:
>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Has anyone got a SATA DVD burner working under linux yet? From the brief
>> googling around it is supposed to be supported but I'm having no luck
>> with one I bought recently. Is there anything special I should be
>> setting or should it "just work"?
>>
>> I'm finding when I attempt to burn (I've tried a bunch of programs under
>> ubuntu 8.10 which all seem to use wodim as their backend for burning)
>> and also Nero all to no avail. The program will start attempting to burn
>> to the burner and then it will just eventually timeout. I then get an
>> error back saying that the burner is too slow and that the session has
>> failed. After that the burner usually doesn't respond at all (even
>> physically pressing the eject button does nothing) and it's pretty much
>> dead until I cold boot the system.
>>
>> If I just use the burner as a cd/dvd reader it seems ok though.
>>
>> --
>> dave.
>> --
>
> I'm likewise having trouble with the Plextor PX760-SA in my workstation at
> home.  I had assumed the problems derived from the Plextor (I believe a
> lot of its issues can be resolved by upgrading the firmware, especially
> burning to DVD+RW) but it would be interesting to hear others'
> experiences.
>
> David
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