![](https://seccdn.libravatar.org/avatar/a9e56f0b2539c8f2356e1694be24be64.jpg?s=120&d=mm&r=g)
Hi Rudi,
had tried, my 16x LG burner in a external case, with USB and firewire,....
with suse 9.2,... with no luck,... under windows ok, to 12x.
avoid the prolific chipset, and go oxford,...
though the newest ones, have driver issues with linux,...
stick with firewire,.....
so far I gave up on suse kb3 and external burners,.....
oh,....on my laptop,... got an pcmcia, sata controller,....
glued a 160gb disk on, and thinking on putting a sata burner on,...
put everything in a slim alu case, power is a slim rackmount psu,
a 3.5" mobile rack, and a dvd burner , bolted on piece of sheet alu,...
no problems with the sata,... on opensuse super 10.0 slick
right now , I have a more burning issue with NVIDIA,....6150 nforce 430,...
death of black screen, suse 9.3,10.0,....
no sound,.... nic is failing,.... currently on 10.1 alpha 3, with 2.6.14.2,...
and runs like sh%t,.......
for 2 years running suse,.. now this, and the family says,... computer is ok,
since we use windoze,.....since nothing works anymore on suse,....argh,....
cheers, Robert Schultz
Rudi Pittman