I just bought an HP SCSI CD-RW at overstock.com for about $60: http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=PROFRAME&PROD_ID=52533
and it's working fine with no headaches in my debian machine. It is SCSI though, so you'll need to have a SCSI card to use it. ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On 14 Oct 2002, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:24, Lisa C. Boyd wrote: > > I currently have an outdated CD-RW that's giving me problems. I'm > > looking at buying a new one and want to make sure what I get is > > compatible with Linux. I would love to be able to write DVDs eventually, > > but right now just writing CDs once would be great :) > > > > Do you have a favorite that has worked well? Or does it just depend on > > how much money I want to spend on the speed? > > Personally, I've had few problems with CD-RW's -- they're becoming more > of a generic "commodity" type hardware now. I've never heard of a > modern CD-RW that isn't compatible with Linux, for example -- they're > normally just generic IDE or SCSI devices. If you already have a SCSI > system, I would recommend SCSI for speed and reduction of CPU load, but > it certainly isn't necessary. SCSI devices also won't require the > sometimes confusing kernel module setup that's necessary for writing to > IDE burners, but SCSI is more expensive. > > IDE CD-burners are "damn cheap" nowadays -- $49.99 for an off-brand, and > $69.99 for a name brand, at Intrex. > > I can't comment on burning DVDs -- the DVD-RAM and similar drives are > still way too expensive for me, and so is the blank media. > > --Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
