From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:38:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a1001180738p1eae137jfc6451a30343dc07@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1001171225x7d936c55x7965074943f0a5e@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> My 5-year old gentoo-AMD64 machine when up in smoke this week so I'm
> building a new machine. Most parts are on order but one big change
> these days is the motherboards I want to purchase no longer support
> EIDE/ATAPI interfaces so I'll have to get a new CD-R/DVD-R drive to
> get the OS loaded and for writing mostly audio discs using
> cdda2wav/cdrecord. While I understand firmware is often a problem on
> these drives I'm wondering what drive manufacturers folks would
> recommend these days as having the best results with cdrecord?
I have a cheap Sony Optiarc (formerly NEC?) and it has worked fine for
me for ripping and burning audio CDs, DVD+/-R (single and dual layer).
It cost around $25 USD. I don't know if it is better or worse than any
other brand but it seems to work for me anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-18 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-17 20:25 [gentoo-user] [OT] - What SATA CD-R/DVD-R drive manufacturer to buy? Mark Knecht
2010-01-18 15:38 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2010-01-18 16:43 ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-18 17:23 ` Paul Hartman
2010-01-18 18:29 ` Mark Knecht
2010-01-18 22:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-01-18 22:57 ` Joerg Schilling
2010-01-19 1:31 ` Mark Knecht
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