I've been using several LG DVD writers in the past, none of which caused any trouble. The Quality isn't as poor as some people might suppose, I have never wrecked a blank DVD with it, nor hab trouble reading DVDs.
The models I used were LG-GSA4082B (8x writer) and LG-GSA-4163B (16x DL writer) Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
