[RLUG] CD/DVD Burner

[Scott Fritzinger]

Jennifer,

Pretty much all CD / DVD drives today use the same driver when reading 
and writing, so it is up to you as to what brand and model.

Personally, I prefer Lite-On drives because they consistently perform 
very well in benchmarks and comparisons. Media compatibility is very 
high as well. I somewhat avoid earlier Pioneer drives and all Sony 
drives because of compatibility reasons.

-Scott

P.S.: For writing, cdrecord and dvdrecord both will auto-detect the 
driver (mmc). cdrdao will require you to choose it (generic-mmc or 
generic-mmc-raw). If you are using some graphical interface, you won't 
need to worry about this.

jennifertf at excite.com 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?
> 
> Jennifer, the newbie
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