From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LURo6-0007zX-TJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:23:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34A7DE052D; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 20:23:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 175C6E052D for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 20:23:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so824535ywm.46 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:23:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QBEduaBtovb/j4s9xRdd/nypgdCTlqo7ELzjhgcyMRU=; b=RSygnRRBEhk26JIJWrdydsvUGGN333T0Awlk3huGSiqO8pHAYhvYhDNiVo/azZkMcg 0SnKcPxcGY/qsEeUokbGXluinU09BOzdTEBt+KrlSQyjqgRJXAuk90zmaz2RWIiAROGF /O5Ri+yL0H5GznLhP9LkO4mNmk86XpllFLJt0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=aw8bzVJTEP5FIfb9XCJGaeLii1gcTlN+DoTQToUlUUsaS5wB0je7XGXrWiweGJIOI+ DK+RJnXFZ6QBKNCAtBaX76YUua69jYE7Bb7vnulZh55asakW5HUtnSqC15YVU8yu93le 986yvAr5rY59ixaHraGdUNNDC5Ee34crGnpsE= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.190.12 with SMTP id n12mr5859465ybf.70.1233692620797; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:23:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:23:40 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dcdc58479f514d5b Message-ID: <58965d8a0902031223j7702b0d7j76714489dc28410e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DVD RW (recommendations From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d44e9fda-1bc5-445d-8907-7c14a86aa19a X-Archives-Hash: 59624b225b0b619abef38b303b67e543 On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:04 PM, James wrote: > Hello > > SATA or Eide on DVD rw choices (internal unit). > > Any cheap DVD rw that have success writing to > the many forms of rw DVDS, that one > would recommend? > > Any bands (plextor?) to avoid on gentoo? I think they should mostly be the same these days... Mine is a SATA Sony Optiarc (formerly NEC) AWG170S and I think it's probably around $20 USD now. Works fine for me since 2007. If you want to do any exotic stuff with hidden tracks on audio CDs, overburning, etc then you need to find specific drives... but I think for burning normal data discs most of the cheap drives now support every format.