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[chris.reeves@xxxxxxxxx (Chris Reeves)]

Message-ID: <3A283B52.C9DCD750@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 23:59:14 +0000
From: Chris Reeves <chris.reeves@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] Recommended CD-RW EIDE ( DVD?)



joe wrote:
> 
> I was at the SuSE hardware database, saw many CD -RW that are listed as
> supported , but pages don't go into detail on how well they work with linux.

CD-RWs are very well supported under Linux. You can do whatever you want
with them.

> Are there some better know rewritable cd burners for linux? How about DVD, are
> there any that play DVD as well? I realize DVD isn't supported in linux, but if
> it played in windows and the cd-rw worked in linux, that would be ok.

If you really must have a combo drive, then I would recommend either a
Toshiba or a Ricoh drive. If burning CDs is more important, then I would
go with the Ricoh, but if reading is more your thing, then the Toshiba
is faster at reads. They're both high quality drives.

DVD video is not necessarily unsupported under linux... check out these
two URLs for more info:
http://www.opendvd.org
http://www.linuxvideo.org

Hope that helps,
        Chris

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