Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:02:14PM -0300, Jeremy Muise wrote:
> > > It's an AOPEN  DUW1608/ARR
> I just thought I should chime in because I have the same burner running
> under a 2.6.11 kernel, and using ide-cd. The drive burns just fine, linux
> support was good, but I did run into two problems:
> 1) I had to shop around till I found a brand of DVD-R (I haven't tried RW yet)
>     that would work, finally settled on TDK.
> 2) it failed to write to slower media, I think anything below 4 it had
> trouble with

So it is a very picky drive, or the firmware is still in need of fixes
(I saw at least 4 firmware updates each adding improved media
compatibility, so perhaps it is something they are working on).

Perhaps not the best writer around, but I bet the price is nice.

Len Sorensen
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