On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:52:59 -0500 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cheryl Homiak([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: [apologies to Wayne for snipping his post; I didn't catch the original] > > Also, the person installing this can get the best price for me on a > > lite-on cdrw, though he could also get a creative. when I looked at > > the cdrw-howto, lite-on wasn't listed, but I realize this doesn't > > mean it isn't usable. Furthe searching brought up the lite-on as > > useable with the cdrom.c driver. Is this a generic driver that is > > loaded by the kernel and will it be loaded with the options i've > > chosen? Has anybody had experience with the lite-on; don't have a > > model number as yet so can't be more specific. > > Sorry, I don't know anything about the 'lite-on'. I found that a > PLEXTOR and an Acer, both worked fins and were not that expensive. > I'm using them, mainly, for backups and performance was more important > then price. I have a Lite-On drive and it's been working nicely for me since I bought it two months ago. It also doesn't have a model number ;-). But it's rated at 16x write, 10x rewrite, 40x read. You need to buy special 10x CD-RW media to get the second number right. Otherwise it burns faster than I can take a bath. It also comes with Burn-Proof (or something similar) for managing buffer under-runs when writing CD-R/Ws. What convinced me to buy the Lite-On was a review that mentioned the company was a top OEM manufacturer for name brands like Plextor. I'm unable to Google the review (and I may be terribly mistaken). But the claims on their web site are similarly impressive, including their being the top CDROM manufacturer in Taiwan! Now why would you lie about a thing like that? http://www.liteonit.com/index-english.htm The only thing lacking from my Lite-On drive is good documentation and feature-rich burning software. I remember getting only a poster and I threw away the CD-ROM. A largely favourable review of the drive can be found at: http://www.cdrinfo.com/hardware/liteon16101/index.shtml. The site has brain-dead navigation. You might want to jump to the summary at: http://www.cdrinfo.com/hardware/liteon16101/page7.shtml
