Hi all.

I have SuSe 9.2 right now and want to buy a DVD burner. Preferably a dual layer one.
I have no idea what burners are supported in SuSe 9.2 and have no idea where to find a list.
Are almost all supported? Only some?
Does anyone want to share his good/bad experience with specific DVD burner brands/modes?
I don't mind fiddling in the commadline and 3rd party drivers. I just don't want to waste my time and money with something that won't work anyway.

Thank you in advance!

AFAIK 99% of all IDE DVD-burners sold today are MMC compliant, which means they will work using the "standard" DVD driver. Some makes and models have minor quirks, or may not work with older versions of the burning tools. I have personally had good luck with NEC drives (2500 and 3500 series). For burning, I almost exclusively use growisofs from the command line - it works great under 2.6 kernels and my suspicion is that it would work with most newer 2.4 kernels as well. cdrecord (and thus, X-CD-Roast and K3B) with the DVD-burning patch works with these burners as well, and my suspicion would be that it has the same degree of compatibility as growisofs does. The growisofs project has notes on hardware compatibility here.

I'm pretty sure that K3B and Xcdroast use growisofs on the backend for DVD recording. Otherwise it is some variant of CDRecord with a dvd burning patch, but basically if the drive is mmc compliant then it should work.

Re: burners, I have a generic Empirex two layer burner I got on sale for $49.00 and it works fine with K3B & SUSE 9.1.

Wow, thanks guys, especially you Lachek.
I'm going to get me NEC tomorrow.