[RLUG] CD/DVD Burner

[Wayne Root]

Scott Fritzinger wrote:

> 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.
>
Every CD/DVD I've thrown (sp) at Linux has just worked, which is more 
than I can say for Win#&^%.
Scott, I usually choose generic-mmc, is generic-mmc-raw better? Haven't 
had any problems with the former, just wondering.

Wayne