I have a dell Inspiron E1505, which has a DVD writer by Toshiba. It works fine under linux. But recently it went bad and DVD or CD writing has gone for a Toss. Therefore I need to buy a new one. Buying a Laptop DVD writer is expensive, I have heard quotes ranging from 2800-4500. However ordinary DVD writers are for 800-1000rs. I was thinking Get a SATA writer and get an external casing. there are 2 downsides 1. External power supply 2. Will it work with linux
Second option is to look for something which runs entirely of USB requiring no power source. However the problem is that does such stuff work with linux. I use distros like SLAX or Puppylinux and not the mainstream ones. Tanveer _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
