DVD Burner recommendations?

[Frank Sorenson]

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Charles Curley wrote:
> Any DVD Burner recommendations? Reliability is my major concern.
> 
> I'd like a USB external DVD burner. It has to play with Linux Fedora
> Core 3 & 4, kernels 2.6.11 & up, and K3B. It should be capable of
> writing all the major DVD formats. I wasn to burn write-once and
> erasable media. I have not bought any media, so I'm not locked into
> anything.

I've been very happy with Plextor drives.  I've got a Plextor PX-712A
that will pretty much burn any format.  I've got ATAPI, but they also
make SATA and USB/FireWire drives, and in faster speeds now.

The product line:
http://www.plextor.com/english/products/product_dvdrw_drives.html

The USB/FireWire model:
http://www.plextor.com/english/products/716uf.htm

Frank
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Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK
Systems Manager, Computer Science Department
Brigham Young University
sorenson at cs.byu.edu
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