[wplug] Requesting recommendations for DVD-burners that work well with Linux

[Carl Benedict]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 17:59, Bill Moran wrote:
> Hey folks.
> 
> Anyone got a USB DVD burner that works well with Linux?
> 
> We have a Sony DRX-530UL and it doesn't seem to work under either Red
> Hat 9 or Fedora Core 2.  It works fine under Windows, so I assume there's
> some sort of compatibility issue.
> 
> I'm not opposed to internal ATA burners, but it would just be easier if
> there was a USB one that would work.  What's compatibility like with the
> ATA ones?  Anyone have any horror stories about not being able to get
> it to work?
> 
> I'm also open to input on how to get this Sony working, if anyone has
> any ideas.  cdrecord finds it just fine, but I get illegal instruction
> errors when I try to do a test burn.

I'm using a fairly generic DVD+/-RW drive (Plextor, or something
similar).  The only problems I had getting it to work properly was
setting up XCDRoast to use the dvd-compatible cdrecord package.  The
version of cdrecord that works with DVD drives requires some type of
public key that expires after a certain period of time.  There are free
public keys that should work for anyone, but every time I would burn, it
would give me an error message saying that the burn failed right at the
end.  After making what I thought was a few coasters, I realized that
the burn was completing, but it was stills saying the burn failed.  I
still do not understand what the advantage is to this key system, nor
does it say anywhere what it is really for. I decided to master my own
ISOs and then burn with growisofs instead.  I haven't had any problems
since then.

I've read that many DVD writers work well after a firmware upgrade.  It
looks like there is an upgrade available for the model you mentioned as
well.  

http://sony.storagesupport.com/freeupgrade/



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