DVD burner recommendations

fryak · 05-10-2004, 10:37 AM

I'm looking for a DVD burner, but I'm looking for one which is linux friendly. I was originally looking at the Plextor PX-708A because I've seen several good reveiws for it. After a little research, I've seen nothing but problems with this DVD+/-RW. I plan to buy Suse 9.1 in the next few weeks and wondered if anyone has any DVD burners they recommend (with any distro)?

Thanks!

Pcghost · 05-10-2004, 10:54 AM

I bought a Memorex DVD burner, and it works well in SuSE 9. It will hopefully work well in 9.1 as well (we'll find out in a few days).

vinay_s_s · 05-10-2004, 11:43 AM

iOmega !!!

fryak · 05-10-2004, 11:54 AM

What model numbers do you guys have? Thanks!

vinay_s_s · 05-11-2004, 01:03 AM

lol !!
i dont have a dvd writer/reader i just saw it on of the computer shops and i thought it was AWESOME!!

Schrambo · 05-11-2004, 11:18 AM

time for a serious answer to the question.

I have a Pioneer A106D DVD-/+R/RW and it has not skipped a beat. (burnt about 10cds and 3 dvds so far in K3B and everythings smooth sailing)
There is the new A107 drives which are 8x and are essentually the same drive.

waiser · 05-11-2004, 12:39 PM

LG Super Multi (DVD+/- R/RW and RAM) does a good job, but I don't know how is DVD-RAM support under linux. I also use Fedora Core 1, and had some problems that made me hate SuSE, so I can't say how it works, but i guess that if it works with K3B, CDRecord, the toaster, my oven etc... under FC1 it should work also under SuSE...

fryak · 05-19-2004, 01:02 PM

Thanks Schrambo and waiser!