Apologies for the elementary questions, but I'm a bit slow to change (smile).
In designing my new machine, I assumed that I would simply transfer the CD drive from the existing box to the new one, but (1) the new mobo seems to have only SATA sockets & (2) CD drives seem to be going the same way as diskette drives, so I'm now planning to buy a new DVD drive & to start using DVDs. I wb using them only for back-ups, not playing music or videos. This looks like a good enough item : ASUS DRW-24B1ST 24x SATA Black R 48x W 8x OEM : CAD 24,99 Can anyone answer a few rather basic questions ? (1) do I need to configure the kernel to find the drive ? (2) what software do Gentoo users use to read/write DVDs ? (3) are there rewritable DVDs, as there used to be rewritable CDs ? -- among the specs are much slower speeds labelled 'RW'. (4) anything else I sb aware of ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
