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

[Sean McCune]

I use a Pioneer DVD/CD SlimWriter DVR-SK12D with Linux.  It works with 
both USB2 and FireWire on Linux.  It does have a wall-wart for power.  I 
don't know of any that can pull enough power over USB or FW to burn 
with.  But it is great. Extremely small and easy to carry around with 
the laptop.

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Specific.asp?ArticleHeadline=Pioneer+DVR-SK12D&Series=0


Carl Benedict wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 17:59, Bill Moran wrote:
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>>Hey folks.
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>>Anyone got a USB DVD burner that works well with Linux?
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>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.
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>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.
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>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.  
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>http://sony.storagesupport.com/freeupgrade/
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