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On Monday 01 September 2008 06:02:03 pm John E. Perry wrote:
> Duaine & Laura Hechler wrote:
> > Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > Having been employed by HP in the Linux area, I know that HP spends a
> > > lot of bucks in the Linux area.
> >
> > OH DO THEY NOW..........then why doesn't my HP dvd640 drive burn DL
> > DVD's --
>
> Be interesting to know where all those bucks go. Their "tech" support
> even forced me to buy a new hard drive so I could wipe suse and my ext3
> home partition off the original before they would answer questions about
> whether I had hardware problems or not.
>
> It wasn't even enough that these were separate partitions in a dual-boot
> setup.
>
> (And yes, I had pressed the issue until I got to at least one level
> above the bottom-feeders in India.)
>
> John Perry

John just add HP to the list of Lazy vendors. I get the same response from 
Lite-on and I/Omagic on their DVD drives. MS sure buys a lot of people! I 
tryed to get a diagnostic from Maxtor for one of their drives and got the 
same answer, but searching Seagate site I found a cli diagnostic for Linux 
that worked fine, neither the Maxtor or Seagate support people new about it. 
Same company Seagate owns Maxtor. 

If you find a good DVD thats supported please post whos it is. I need a drive 
I can depend on.

Sorry slightly off topic.

-- 
Russ
Linux register user 441463
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