On Sunday 30 March 2003 05:43, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a simple question: which cd writer do you > people recommend to buy for use with Debian (and > windows 98) ? > > One thing I'm planning in short term is, downloading > Debian & burnig it on CDs > > > As I've had much compatibility probs, I decided I'd > better ask to avoid them in this case. > > > Thanks for any help, > > Joris
My CD writer is a LG (Goldstar) CED 8080-B. Before I bought it I checked the Linux hardware compatibility list, couldn't find it, but found a similar-sounding 'Goldstar' listed so took a gamble. Out with the old 6x cd drive, in with the LG, lost the Windows-only setup CD that came with it, forgot to configure a thing and it worked perfectly for reading, straight off. For writing I had to go through some hoops with ide-scsi so cdrecord would work, but that wasn't the drive's fault. (This was in Red Hat but I expect it would be the same for debian. I don't know whether any apps have been upgraded to work direct with IDE drives and not need ide-scsi.). I expect most IDE / ATAPI CD writers would behave the same as my LG. I eventually found the LG's 'setup' CD, by the way. Inside the 6x drive I took out, where else? ;) cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
