shengchieh Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 To All: My DVD burner is going bad and does not read/write CDs, just read/write DVDs. I decided to buy an external USB CD/DVD burner. In particular, I am looking at the list at tigerdirect.com and meritline.com (I already ruled out Amazon and CDW). I am not interested in speed, but compatiblity, since I use the drive mostly for burning backups and other slow speed usages. I use Mandriva 2006 on this desktop and Xandros 3 on the laptop. Can you recommend or reject any burner (that works well with linux) on the list? I prefer to be economical and consider only burners under $80. tigerdirect.com http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/ca...t=3&Recs=10 meritline http://www.meritline.com/exdvdbu.html Thank in advanced for any feedback. Sheng-Chieh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 I have LG DVD/CD Writers and they work pretty well under Linux, at least for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 Never had any problems with 3 different NEC burners so far. You'll likely encounter some problems with non-100% MMC-3 compliant devices (that can simply be translated as "Plextors"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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