[Scottish] DVDrw drives - advice?

[Georgia Thomson]

steer WELL clear of the sony one.  my mate had a hard enough time 
getting it to work. it reads media fine, but is apparently very fussy 
with what media it will write to, both CD and DVD.  other than that, i 
dont know about any of them.  I have a Pioneer DVR-105 and have had no 
problems with it/

Regards

Georgia
On 8 Mar 2004, at 22:49, neil sinclair wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm in the happy position of being able to buy a DVD writer - 
> weyhey!!! But...
>
> I need it to work with Win ME  and SuSE 8.2 on a dual boot system. **  
> It will
> be used mainly for video writing and file system backups.
>
> Can anyone give advice or recommend known good drives out there which 
> would
> fit the bill? As far as I can see, the lists suggest that any ATAPI 
> DVDwriter
> should work, so I should be OK.
>
> My shortlist is:
>   Sony DWU 14A
>   Asus DRW0402P
>   Optorite DD0401
>   Liteon  LDW-401S
>
> Of these, the Sony gives the greatest heartache - great reputation for 
> build
> and reliability, shocking reputation for compliance to standards.
>
> Open to suggestions!
>
> TIA,
> Neil.
>
>
> **
> Duron 1000 MHz
> 256 Mb ram
> Gigabyte 7zmmh motherboard
> Intel graphics
> 120 Gb WD drive
> Liteon DVD reader
> Philips CDRW (to be swapped out)
>
>
>
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