Re: Do-all computer?

[csj <csj@zapo.net>]

At Sun, 12 Oct 2003 23:32:20 -0500,
Ron Johnson wrote:

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> Any ATA CD-RW and DVD-RW/-RAM/+RW drive should work just fine
> with Linux, since they are controlled by the ATAPI driver and
> useland apps.

CD and DVD writers are a userland problem.  Almost all CD writers
should work with cdrecord and most probably cdrdao.  It's a
different thing with DVD-/+R/W, though support is improving to
"the just screw it in and throw away the (Win) driver CD" stage .
Until recently, CD/DVD writing was done primarily via IDE SCSI
emulation, rather than direct ATAPI.

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