[TriLUG] Best Linux-supported CDRW?

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Tue Oct 15 16:12:47 EDT 2002


On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 13:13, Jeff Jackowski wrote:
> On 14 Oct 2002, Lisa C. Boyd wrote:
> 
> >I currently have an outdated CD-RW that's giving me problems. I'm
> >looking at buying a new one and want to make sure what I get is
> >compatible with Linux. I would love to be able to write DVDs eventually,
> >but right now just writing CDs once would be great :)
> 
> I've got a Pioneer DVR-A03 drive, so I figured I'd fill in some details. 
> The newer A04/104 drive can be had for $300 and good DVD-R's, the kind 
> that DVD players can use, are availble for $4 or less, and cheap DVD-R's, 
> good for DVD-ROM drives, are under $1 per disk. The lowest prices I've 
> seen are at http://www.meritline.com/.

I've seen a distinction between "DVD-R" and "DVD+R" (also spelled "DVD
plus R".  I think maybe the "good" ones you refer to should actually be
called "DVD+R" to be completely precise.  The whole thing is quite
confusing...

--Jeremy




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