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* [gentoo-user] new machine : DVD drive
@ 2012-08-20 10:21 99% Philip Webb
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From: Philip Webb @ 2012-08-20 10:21 UTC (permalink / raw
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Apologies for the elementary questions, but I'm a bit slow to change (smile).

In designing my new machine, I assumed that I would simply transfer
the CD drive from the existing box to the new one,
but (1) the new mobo seems to have only SATA sockets
& (2) CD drives seem to be going the same way as diskette drives,
so I'm now planning to buy a new DVD drive & to start using DVDs.
I wb using them only for back-ups, not playing music or videos.

This looks like a good enough item :
  ASUS DRW-24B1ST 24x SATA Black R 48x W 8x OEM : CAD 24,99

Can anyone answer a few rather basic questions ?
(1) do I need to configure the kernel to find the drive ?
(2) what software do Gentoo users use to read/write DVDs ?
(3) are there rewritable DVDs, as there used to be rewritable CDs ?
-- among the specs are much slower speeds labelled 'RW'.
(4) anything else I sb aware of ?

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