Re: Recommendations for Linux-friendly Blu-Ray writing drives?

[Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com>]

On 16/03/13 11:25 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 16/03/13 11:18 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 03/16/13 16:05, Gary Dale wrote:
> > > I've had my own problems with Pioneer BD writers. I never got a 207 to
> > > work with Linux either. Moreover, they refuse to publish a firmware
> > > updater for anything but Windows. That could be what's causing your
> > > problem. If you have a Windows machine you can connect the writer to,
> > > try updating the firmware first.
> >
> > Yuck.
> >
> >
> > Does anybody have any recommendations for Linux-friendly Blu-Ray 
> > writing drives?
> >
> >
> > David
>
> LG and ASUS have worked well for me.
BTW: do try to update the firmware if you can. It may work better after 
a firmware update. It's hard to imagine why a SATA block device would 
fail under Linux unless there was something wrong with its firmware.