On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:21:21PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm thinking of buying a cd writer. > > The howto suggests that most ide drives should work fine with Linux. > > But I was just wondering what modals people have had good results with and > more importantly if there are any to avoid.
Of about 8 different IDE models installed, none have ever presented a problem. Here's what I use in my home machine. It has burned about around a thousand discs without a hitch: Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX140E Rev: 1.0c It's an 8x/4x/32x (write/rewrite/read). Going price is around $130 US.
