Once upon a time, Michael George wrote : > I have finally decided to move up to a CD-RW drive. I noticed that there are > some drives out there that will do CD-RW *and* read DVDs (but *not* write > them). I don't see any on eLinux.com, though. > > I figure that since they are ATAPI devices, they should work just fine as a > CD-RW or DVD-ROM drive. Anyone have any experience with any of these devices, > good or bad?
I have one of those in my Dell laptop, it's a Toshiba 6-4-4-24 drive (6x DVD, 4x CDR(W), 24x CD) and it works just fine. The only problem I had with Seawolf 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 kernels is that the system "hangs" during the CD fixation (everything is running but new processes can't fork until it's finished)... weird, I admit. I didn't try burning with the new 2.4.9 from 7.2 yet though. Oh, also, I'm taking about a slim laptop drive, but similar ones exist in full 5"1/4 desktop versions. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux RPMs : http://freshrpms.net/ Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) running kernel 2.4.9-7 Load : 0.38, AC on-line, battery charging: 100% (11:30) _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
