Re: Need CDR/DVD reader/burner for Slack 12

on Tuesday 28 August 2007 02:23
in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.hardware
wexfordpress wrote:

My old drive is starting to act up. Need a new one. Tiger Direct
has ATA drives for $24 and up but I am unsure about Linux
compatibility. Any success stories for under $100?

Some drives require Win XP. Are we back to the infamous Winmodem
nonsense?

It is highly likely that the software supplied with the drive
to burn CDs will be Windows only, but you don't need it. The
only bit of software that you might be interested in is to flash
the ROM of the drive and you probably don't want to do that either.


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