Re: Progress During May

["Dirk Terrell" <terrell@boulder.swri.edu>]

On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 16:24:44 -0500, Tom Droege wrote:

>The important thing for me is that they write in some common standard 
>ISOxxx that is not apt to change over time.  The other important thing is 
>that linux knows about them and just writes and reads from them.  So which 
>box should I buy that meets my needs?
>

I bought a Sony unit (DRU-510A) that writes both DVD-R/W and DVD+R/W.
It was about $350. I have seen DVD-R/W units in the $200-$250 range. I
have the Sony working for DVD-R just fine under Red Hat. You need the
latest cdrtools and cdrecord-prodvd (and if you want a GUI, something
like X-CD-Roast). It writes ISO9660 disks that other machines can read.


Dirk