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

[Bill Moran]

Carl Benedict <cbenedic at pittsburghtechs.com> wrote:
> 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/

I went through the firmware upgrade, but it's still not burning for me.
Thanks a lot for the input.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com