Re: Which DVD recorder to buy?
csj@gmx.co.uk wrote:
> On 7. September 2005 at 11:30PM +1200,
> Volker Kuhlmann <hidden@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
>
> [...]
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> > On another list someone was keen on LG, model LG GSA-4163,
> > cheap too. Also does DVD-RAM, which supposedly can be mounted
> > read/write as a hard disk out of the box with Linux. Emphasis
> > on "out of the box". Pioneer 108 and 109 are crap, personally I
> > wouldn't risk the 110. I have a 106, and Pioneer stopped
> > supplying firmware updates after 12 months, which means I can
> > only burn 4x media, which are no longer on the market ->
> > Pioneer = paperweight.
>
> Does this mean the Pioneer drive can't burn 8x (or higher) media
> at 4x?
No, they just return wrong information about max speed. Cdrecord -force
works and a workaround will come up soon.
Jörg
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