DVD R/W et. al.

[Brendan]

On Tuesday 19 April 2005 11:30 am, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>:
> > I have an older SCSI CD-R in my system, but under the 2.6 kernel, my SCSI
> > card is no longer supported. Since this is my only remaining SCSI device,
> > I was thinking of getting a DVD writer.
> >
> > I haven't researched them, but I would like some personal opinions of
> > what successes or failures you might have had. I'd probably get an IDE
> > drive.
>
> For $50 from NewEgg you can get an ATAPI DVD multi-writer..  It supports
> CDRW/DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD+R DL (8.5GB!)..  Not a bad deal, IMHO.  It's the NEC
> 3250A (IIRC), and I'm 99% sure it works just fine on Linux.

Confirmed, except that k3b thinks it's a 67x CD-R...