On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, robin wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > >>On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > >>>On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 > >>> > >>>Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>>Dennis: > >>> > >>><SNIP> > >>> > >>>>Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and > >>>>not get fried. Thanks for the info. Makes me feel not so > >>>>stupid. -- > >>>>Dennis M. linux user #180842 > >>> > >>>Plextor rocks. So does Teak & Velo. > >>> > >>>Femme > >> > >> Yes, I like Plextor. BUT, when this first came up on the cooker > >>list, the only drives involved were LG CDroms, at $19.95, that were > >>mostly all blacklisted by kernel.org. It's not a widespread > >>problem. Well, other than many Linux users not being aware that not > >>all hardware is suitable for anything but Windoze. > > > > I had never even heard of LG Electronics before this came up. > > I'm surprised to see problems with LG drives. LG usually produce cheap, > robust, OS-independent hardware - in fact they're the only hardware > company I've seen mentioning Linux on the box. > > Sir Robin Please note that the problem only seems to be with the CDROM drives, not CD-RW drives. The one I use now as master is a LG CD-RW 52x24x52x drive and it has no problems. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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