[Herefordshire] Best supported DVD Writer formats ?

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Ralph

Nice to hear from you again. Hope you'll be coming along to the next mtg 
- the college has a very nice computer room, its warm, we are very 
welcome there, but there is no beer ;-(

Oh well, 3 out of 4 isn't bad ;-)

Thanks for the info below:-

Julian

Ralph Jones wrote:
> Lo Julian, lo all, 
> 
> Enclosed my ha'penny's worth on this.
> 
> HTH 
> 
> Ralph
> 
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 09:54 +0000, Julian Robbins wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>Can anyone suggest what is the best way to go when buying a DVD Writer 
>>for a Linux PC ? Should it be DVD +R/RW or DVD -R/RW ? I've discounted 
>>DVD-RAM.
> 
> 
> This is the best guide I've found recently on this matter - I haven't
> read it all, just bookmarked it for when my Xmas bonus comes through.
> 
> http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;282707134
> 
> It might also be worth checking http://www.arstechnica.com and
> http://www.tomshardware.com.
>  
> 
>>And does Linux support the 'multi' recorders that appear to be able to 
>>handle both formats ?
>>
>>Also which format is easiest to get working under Linux. I would be 
>>using Redhat 9, Possibly Fedora Core 1 and Mandrake 9.2 for this.
> 
> 
> On these questions, have you checked the Hardware Compatibility List
> (HCL) on linuxquestions.org? Always the first place I look whenever I do
> some hardware window shopping/wishlist compilation.
> 
> 
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