Which CD RW?

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/me drools over the idea of new hardware :o)

i just hopped over to TDK's site and checked out their drives...Wow!!  i want one too.

no joking now:  i've known several people with TDK's that have worked fine with all kinds of Linux 
out of the box.  I personally own an older plexwriter, which i love dearly.  my honest opinion is 
that TDK and Plextor both make top of the line consumer CD-drives.  

two things that you might do to ease your mind:  TDK should have some documentation on their 
website conserning the drive in question and if it has any problems with Linux... if for some 
reason they do not, fire a quick email at their tech area.  also, a good grassroots tech support 
area that i have found to be useful is the "Linux Hardware Database" at http://lhd.zdnet.com/   
they often have something on just about everything.  if i don't know about the Linux comp. of a 
product, i'll often head there first.

i would at least check the info that TDK has on the drive before you believe me, but i think that 
your only problem will be melted blanks from all that speed!! :)  (then there is the religious 
choice of picking which CD toasting front-end that you're going to use.  but i'll let someone else 
say something about that, i don't want get hurt :) )

Tim R

--No dictionaries where hurt during the creation of this document.  All grammer and spelling 
mistakes where made by illiterate university students.--

--- Jim Herrmann <JimH at ItDepends.com> wrote:
>I'm looking to buy a new CD-RW that's really fast.  Will pretty much any 
>writer work with any linux distro?  It's just another SCSI device, for which 
>the CD-RW driver works for about anything, right?  Anything you can think of 
>that I should watch out for?  There was a TDK 48x12x48 on Amazon that looked 
>like a good deal.
>
>Anwers?  Opinions?  
>
>Thanks,
>Jim Herrmann
>
>

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