Plextor CD-RW

[gnomez]

Anyone wanting a great, no hassle cd-rw for Linux should consider one of these, I have a PlexWriter 40/12/40a and it works great.  Burns extremely fast, 100% working under Linux and XCdroast. (which is what I use)  Very great drive overall.

Actually everything I bought works like a charm under Linux even though it is all very modern.  The only thing that was a little tricky was my old pnp modem which had an irq conflict that I reassigned in the BIOS; now it works great.  Also I had to manually enter my monitor's sync ranges, but that's no big deal.  So.. I have a fully functional desktop with a DVD player, CD-RW, network, modem, geforce 4... hmmm what was that about Linux not supporting desktop hardware?  It supports more hardware overall than either the Mac or the Windows platform, actually!

[Calum]

while we're on the subject, anybody know if there's a version of cdrecord that works with a USB CDRW drive?

[voidmain]

The question should be "how do I make my USB CD burner show up in Linux as a SCSI CD burner". cdrecord works with SCSI burners.  Of course on IDE burnders you just load the ide-scsi kernel module and bingo, Linux sees your drive as a SCSI burner.

Now, I don't have the answer to your question I'm sorry to say because I generally don't buy USB devices, especially when it comes to devices where you want more than 12Mbps (1.5MB/s).

[TheQuirk]

Mandrake 8.2 finds my Philips CDRW2400 series..

It's cheap, pretty fast, reliable, and once again, cheap =]