DVD Burner (USB or IDE?)

[Joshua Oreman]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:45:48AM -0400 or thereabouts, Bill Moran wrote:
> cp wrote:
> >We need to purchase a DVD drive for backup. 
> >We are running 5.1 RELEASE. We have USB
> >IDE and SCSI on this fairly new system. There
> >are no USB devices being used now and only
> >a CD Drive and single harddrive on the IDE. 
> >
> >I read the compatibility notes and searched 
> >Google for the wide range of devices available.
> >So far it appears that querying or searching this
> >list *Before* purchase is the best way to avoid
> >days of messing around ;-). 
> >
> >Can anyone offer an opinion as to which type of DVD
> >burner would present the least possible hassle in
> >installation? What I'm hoping for, is to install it, 
> >make a new kernel and simply use it to write
> >complete CD snapshots to store offsite.
> 
> Soeren has a Sony DRU500A that we bough him for development, so I would 
> assume
> that support for that particular make/model of DVD burner is the best right 
> now
> and will continue to be the best.

I have one too! It's great. You can write +RW with burncd, -R and -RW
with dvdrecord (which I may someday submit a port for; it needs some patches
to install) and +R with... well... why would you use +R anyway? :-) You can
also write CD-R and CD-RW w/cdrecord.  And if you want video DVDs, encode
the MPEG yourself, and there's a program that comes with dvdrecord to generate
the layout.

So get the internal IDE DRU500A, and you won't regret it!

-- Josh

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