DVD Burners

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Mon Jan 16 13:55:02 EST 2006


One thing I would like to add.

If you get a drive, make sure it supports "booktyping"

Basically it burns a DVD+RW disk as booktype "DVD-ROM" This lets you 
play a video DVD in any commercial DVD drive, since it acts like a 
"normal" DVD.

This removes some of the compatibility issues with +R/-R media working 
in only some drives.

Jon maddog Hall wrote:
> I have used the Sony External USB and Firewire 16x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW/CD-RW
> drive with SuSE 10.0 and it worked great in burning DVD+R and DVD-R, as well
> as installing SuSE off the DVD to a machine.  And it was FAST. :-)
> 
> Quite frankly, with the way that DVD burners, speeds and standards are changing,
> I would not get an internal drive.  Just use your USB 2.0 or Firewire
> interface to hook it to everything.
> 
> I am in the process of buying a new "desktop" machine, and I have specified at
> least two of the 10 USB 2.0 ports and one of the dual Firewire ports plus
> audio be on the front panel.  Don't want to deal with having to get behind the
> machine anymore for things that are portable, like DVD/CD thingies.  Other,
> more permanent things (like the dual Gbit Ethernet) can be in the back....but
> other stuff just has to be in the front.
> 
> md



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