On Sunday 10 December 2000 04:40, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > >>>>> "NV" == Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > NV> Hi, Can someone point me to information about supported CD > NV> burners in linux? I've finelly decided to go out and buy one, > NV> but I have no idea which one would work well. Also, what > NV> software do you recommend for cd writing? > > Check out the CD-Writing HOWTO. It contains answers to most of your > questions. The HOWTO can be found at: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/CD-Wr >iting-HOWTO.html > > My new desktop system has a Yamaha 2100E CD-RW. This burner has an 8Mb > Buffer Cache and its speeds are: 16x Write, 10x Rewrite, 40x Read. This > is one of the fastest IDE burners available on the market, and its made > by Yamaha so quality is second to none. If you can afford to spend some > extra $$$, the Yamaha 2100E IDE burner is definitely a good choice. > > Its fully supported in Linux even though the CD-Writing HOWTO doesn't > specifically list this model on its list of supported burners, but then > the Yamaha 2100E is a new model. > > I have used XCdRoast (woody version) to burn almost 15 CDs (CD-Rs) since > I got the system and so far have gotten no coasters. > > The Yamaha 2100E burner is excellent, and I find XCdRoast (woody > version) to be excellent program to burn CDs.
I use mostly Joerg Schilling's cdrecord suite of utilities (cdrecord + mkisofs), which is the basis of most X-based cd burning front ends. cdrecord will suffice for most cd-burning needs, such as data backup and the creation of audio CDs. A list of hardware supported by cdrecord can be found at the cdrecord homepage at http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling/cdrecord.html. For fancier arson you can check out Andreas Müller's cdrdao at http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/. There's also a .deb for cdrdao, fairly up-to-date, and a front-end, Gnome CD Master or gcdmaster iirc. My own experience: I own an ACER 4x4x32 and a BTC 4x4x32 (no zip disks for me!) The ACER appears to handle generic CDR's better. It happens to be more expensive. Moral: if you want to use label-less CDR's buy the more expensive burner.
