dvd-writer

[Michel]

Hi,

 

I 'm considering buying the NEC 1300 A dvd-writer..Do you know anything (quality ) of NEC-products..dvd-writer maybe??

 

thanks

[Michel]

Ok, I did some reearch on the dvd-writer I had my eye on...and bought it...I saw some good reviews in general...now hoping it works on linux (I've done a little bit of research on this and it looks ok)...

 

it's the NEC 1300 A...I bought it for around 200 € ..So, are dvd-writer prices dropping...?

[Ixthusdan]

nec used to be respected in video products- tv's and vcr's. I have never heard anything negative about their products. I'm sure that their dvd units will work fine!

[Cannonfodder]

Let us know how you make out with it..

:wink:

[aRTee]

I've seen quite a few positive comments on that model you quote.

 

And yes, dvd writers are very much dropping in price.

 

There's a very cool plextor coming up, 8 speed dvd+r burning, but also burns dvd-r(w) discs, so dual standard.

 

Best of all about this plextor: it has mount rainier support, making the dvd+rw discs really read-write like any other filesystem, basically, turning them into 4.7GB floppy disks.

 

And yes, there are patches available for mount rainier support in linux. Don't know for sure but it seems they have not made it into 2.6 kernel series, but I'm sure they will at some point, until then you'd have to patch yourself.

Also, there is a mount rainier for cd-rw, marketed as 'easywrite' and one for dvd+rw; for dvd-rw it seems this is not possible or at least for now not part of the standard.....

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Pretty much all DVD writers should work in Linux. Check out this page:

http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/

[Michel]

Ok teh reading works fine...I haven't tested the writing yet...I just put it in and Mandrake detected it...and there we go....you het a nic menu to name your mount-point.....

 

Maybe it doesn't belong here..but I didn't get it to work under windows Me...yeah yeah...It has some problems with the second IDE controller it seems...If someone could help me here....:)

 

I have 2 hd's :

 

primary 1 : 1st hd : windows

slave 1: cdrom-reader

 

primary 2: 2nd hd: linux

slave 2: NEC 1300 A

 

Ofcourse windows can't read teh linux harddrive, but could this be a problem...I want to set this up mainly for my brother....Man o man...

[Ixthusdan]

For the windex in all of us (well, some of us!)

 

1) In your bios, turn plug n play back on.

2) Boot windex.

3) Allow it to configure itself (write to the registry)

4) Reboot

5) In bios, turn plug n play off

6) Boot linux

7) Never boot windex again.

 

Well, the last part isn't needed, but you know!

 

Me was a notoriously bad version of windex, which is why they charged so much for it. Get the critical updates to me before doing anything. My me wouldn't really work until I updated it. (Yes, microduffy does the same stuff that any os does: releases versions that are buggy!!)

[Michel]

plug'n play was enabled...anyway...I maybe just reinstall windows...it's still quite messes up I think since I put in and out a new hd and edited the register manually :)....

 

Thanks anyway...

[Michel]

Ok I just spend a half yesterday getting the dvd recognized by windows.....

I attached the IDE-devices to difefrent IDE-cables and finally windows could detect the dvd..now my configguration:

 

primary 1: hdd1 (windows)

slave 1: hdd2 (linux)

 

primary 2: dvd

slave 2: cdrom

 

I reinstalled windows.... and man all that restarting....hopefully linux will avoid this....

 

And then..since I switched teh devices..ofcourse linux woulmdn'tboot anymore.....but (I LOVE LINUX AT THE MOMENT!!!!) I specified on linux commandline: linux root=/dev/hdbX

 

and it started..during startup..mandrake/linux recognized that the devices were swicthed and asked me if it had to change the fstab-file !!! and allowed me to also do it manulayy ...(here I assigned the 2 cdroms to the same mount-point...., but fixed it later ). Can it get better in this area ????