tm> I'd like to start doing something along these tm> lines, but I need to have supported hardware tm> first. any idea which brands of cd-rw drive are tm> supported in linux? As long as it's not a USB device, then most any one you're likely to buy, according to the CD-Writing-HOWTO A quote from the HOWTO says: ------------------------------------------------------- 1.5. Supported CD-writers USB CD-writers are currently not supported at all. Apart from that you can safely assume that most newer IDE/ATAPI- and SCSI-writers work under Linux. Newer drives are mostly MMC-compliant and are therefore supported. If the SCSI-version of a particular writer works, the IDE/ATAPI-version will most likely work and vice versa. However, some people want to get a warm and fuzzy feeling by reading the exact model of their writer in some sort of compatibility list. That is the reason why I didn't throw the following list out of the HOWTO. Here is a comprehensive summary of drives reported to work with cdrecord: Acer: CDRW 4432A, CDRW 6206A, CD-R/RW 6X4X32, 8432A BTC: BCE 621E (IDE) Compro: CW-7502, CW-7502B Creative: MK 4211, RW 4224E, Delta: OME-W 141 Dysan: CRW-1622 Elite: Elite b444.41 Goldstar: CED-8041B Grundig: CDR 100 IPW Guillemot: Maxi CD-R 4X/8X HP: SureStore 4020i, SureStore 6020i, C4324, C4325 CD-writer+ 7100, 7200i, 7500e, 8100i, 8110i, 8200i Plus, 8250i, 9100i, 9110i, 9200e, 9210, 9300i, 9310i Hi-Val: CDD 2242, CDD-3610, Iomega: ZIPCD 4x650 JVC: XR-W 2001, XR-W 2010, XR-W 2040, XR-W 2042, XR-RW 2224, YR 2626 Kiss: CDRW (no model given) Kodak: PCD 200, PCD 225, PCD 260, PCD 600 Matsushita: matsushita is the japanese name for panasonic, please see there Memorex: CRW-620, CDR-622, CRW-1622, CRW-2224, CDRW-4420 Microboards: PlayWrite 2000, PlayWrite 4000 RW, PlayWrite 4001 RW MicroNet: MasterCD Plus 4x4, MasterCD Plus 4x6 Mitsubishi: CDRW-226 Mitsumi: CR-2401-TS, CR-2600 TE, CR-2801 TE, CR-4801 TE, CR-4802 TE, CR-4804 TE Nomai: 680.RW Olympus: CDS 615E, CDS 620E Optima: DisKovery 650 CD-R OTI: CDRW 965, CDRW 975 (Socrates 1.0) Panasonic: CW-7285, CW-7502, CW-7503, CW-7582 Philips: CDD-521/10, CDD-522, CDD-2000, CDD-2600, CDD-3600, CDD-3610, CDD 4201 PCA 267cr, PCA 460 RW, PCRW 404, Omniwriter 26, Omniwriter 26A, CDRW800 Pinnacle: RCD-100, RCD-1000, RCD-5020, RCD-5040 Pioneer: DW-S114X Plasmon: CDR 480, CDR 4220, RF-4100, RF-4102, CDR 4400 Plextor: CDR PX-24 CS, PX-412 C, PX-R412 C PX-R 810Ti, PX-R 820T, PX-W 4220Ti, PX-W 8220T, PX-W 8432T Plexwriter RW 4/2/20 Procom: PCDR 4 REC: 820s Ricoh: RO-1420C+, MP 1420C, MP 6200S, MP 6201S, MP 7040A, MP-7060A Samsung: SW-204 Sanyo: CRD-R24S Smart and Friendly: CD-RW 226, CD-R 1002, CD-R 1002/PRO, CD-R 1004, CD-R 2004, CD-R 2006 PLUS, CD-R 2006 PRO, CD-RW 2224, CD-R 4000, CD-R 4006, CD-R 4012, CD-RW 4424A CD-R 8020, CD-R 8220 Sony: CDRX 100E, CDRX 120E, CDRX 140S-RP, CDU 920S, CDU 924, CDU 926S, CDU 928E, CDU 948S Taiyo Yuden: EW-50 TEAC: CD-R50S, CD-R55S, CDR-55S, CDR-55K, CDR-56S-400, CD-R56S-600, R56S-614 Traxdata: CRW 2260, CDR 4120, CDR 4120 Pro, CDRW 4260, CDRW 4424, CDR 4800 Turtle Beach: 2040R Waitec: wt 2036, wt 2444ei WPI (Wearnes): CDRW-622, CDR-632P Yamaha: CDR-100, CDR 102, CDR-200, CDR-200t, CDR-200tx CDR-400, CDR-400c, CDR-400t, CDR-400tx, CDR-400Atx CDW-2216E, CRW-2260, CRW-2260t, CRW-4250tx, CRW-4260t, CRW-4260tx, CRW-4261, CRW-4416S, CRW-6416S, CRW-8424E The detailed list of models which have been reported to work or not to work under various Unix-like operating systems is available online from . If your hardware isn't supported you can still use Linux to create an image of the CD. You may wish to do so because most burning software for DOS does not deal with RockRidge-extensions (Unix-like filesystems on CD-ROM). In a second step, you can use DOS or Macintosh software to write the image to the CD-R. ------------------------------------------------------- BTW, I have a Plextor Plexwriter (PX-W8432/SW). Plextors are supposed to be among the best. Works fine for me. -- Lynn David Newton Phoenix, AZ