Almost all recording software for Linux uses cdrecord to write to the CD-R(W). The home page for cdrecord is at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/... I liked HP when I have bought drives in the past. My current PC came with some generic Asian CD-RW by Lite-On (www.liteonit.com). It seems to work just fine but cdrecord doesn't use the "BURN-Proof" fature for some reason. It is usually a good idea to put the CD-RW on a different IDE channel than your hard drive (on a different cable). If you are going to copy CDs with two drives you will want them on different channels. It was very important when CD-RW were a lot slower you probably can get away with the CD-RW on the same channel if it is a new fast ones with a large buffer. "BURN-Proof" will really help here. Good luck, PBen On Wednesday 26 September 2001 02:31 am, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I am thinking of buying a CD R/RW. What are the gotcha's ? Any recommendations. I have only IDE, no SCSI. Thanks.