[TriLUG] [Xmas present] CD-RW - DVD-ROM Combo. Do they work?

[JoJo Almario]

I have a combo DVD/CD-RW on my RedHat 8.0 laptop. It works fine with
XcdRoast and Gnome Toaster.  I have had to read data on a DVD with this
laptop and it has worked great doing that (about 10 gigs worth of .cpio
files), but I have not tries it using XINE.

Good luck! and Happy Holidays!

JOJO

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Subject: [TriLUG] [Xmas present] CD-RW - DVD-ROM Combo. Do they work?


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All,

Merry Xmas / Happy Holidays / Belated Happy Hannukah!

Xmas is about to hit me in the face (or so to speak *grin*). And my
"Techno Santa" is going to give me a DVD player (internal IDE).

There's one that Techno Santa specialy likes: a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo unit
form Samsung (Samsung SM-32, 23x CDR, 10x CDRW, 40x CDROM, 12x DVDROM).

Here there are some questions for you, specialy if you have a similar
one:

- - Do those combos units work under Linux?

- - How well do they do CD-RW? And DVD? I have Xine + PLF (penguin
lberation front).

- - How well do they do DVD?

- - What does Linux use for DVD reproduction? RAM? CPU? Videcard? I have a
K6-2-400, 256MB, nVidia TNT2-32MB

I'm fearless, so I don't mind having to spend some time tweaking around
( have MDK 9.0. I can mess with the Kernel compilation, boot options,
create entried in the /dev...)


Thanks in advance,



Salut,
Sinner
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http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/     Linux User # 89976
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