On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:20, csj wrote: > At Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:32:20 -0500, > Ron Johnson wrote: > > [...] > > > Any ATA CD-RW and DVD-RW/-RAM/+RW drive should work just fine > > with Linux, since they are controlled by the ATAPI driver and > > useland apps. > > CD and DVD writers are a userland problem. Almost all CD writers > should work with cdrecord and most probably cdrdao. It's a > different thing with DVD-/+R/W, though support is improving to > "the just screw it in and throw away the (Win) driver CD" stage .
But that's exactly what I did with a ieee1394-attached DVD-RW! Worked like a charm... > Until recently, CD/DVD writing was done primarily via IDE SCSI > emulation, rather than direct ATAPI. > > [...] -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Thanks to the good people in Microsoft, a great deal of the data that flows is dependent on one company. That is not a healthy ecosystem. The issue is that creativity gets filtered through the business plan of one company. Mitchell Baker, "Chief Lizard Wrangler" at Mozilla -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
