Gayle Posted October 26, 2003 Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 I'm considering replacing my 24X cdrom drive with a Sony CRX300A CDRW/DVD drive. The description on the box says requires Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP. Will this work with Mandrake Linux 9.1? Will HardDrake automatically set this up? Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted October 26, 2003 Report Share Posted October 26, 2003 I've got a Lite-On DVD+RW which works fine Mandrake. It was picked up and correctly configured by 9.2 and seems to work fine. I've only used it to burn CDs so far, no idea if the DVD bit works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 More than likely it will work. try it out and tell us what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted October 27, 2003 Report Share Posted October 27, 2003 You'll probably need to install a patched version of cdrecord / cdrtools to burn DVD's - I've got a toshiba DVD-RW drive here and it works fine. In general most modern ATAPI optical drives will work under Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted October 28, 2003 Report Share Posted October 28, 2003 Yeah, atapi drives should work as long as they follow the standard. Don't look at LG cdroms, as we have learned they are not really atapi compiant... Not sure how the dvd part works with discs from different regions (differing region codes)... (hmm, I think I may just open a topic on that..) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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