On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:44:51 -0300, inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:

>"Lloyd Fuller"  said:
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>>On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:36:22 -0300, inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:
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>>>It appears that my Lite-On CD burner has just sort of faded away - no
>>>writee/no keepee.  (It still works as a reader, but...)  When I got it
>>>at an OS/2 user's suggestion the first thing I learned when I got it was
>>>that it was on no one's driver list.  Dani actually write code to
>>>include it.
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>>>I know consensus questions are normally next thing to useless, but I was
>>>hoping there might a "common" burner out there that
is on the driver
>>>lists, etc.?
>>Jim,
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>>Do you want another CD-R or a DVD-R?  Most writers for sale nowdays are
>>DVDs either with just a read DVD or with  a writable DVD.  I have used
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>Well, I have no idea if I'll ever record DVD, but I have no reason to
>try to avoid it.  I'd assumed whatever I got would be both.  And if I
>got to doing DVD I'd want as broad a capability as possibible to try to
>avoid not having the very thing I needed at the time..
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>>several writable DVD drives from various manufacturers without problem. 
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>So you just get what, the cheapest thing you find?  With my Lite-On I
>always had to use some generic driver, rather than something actually
>matching the drive.  If you like that I suppose it's the way to go.

Yes, I watch the sales and the rebates.  If you look at the actual drives,
many of by one of three or four 
manufacturers.  I try to stick with the better blanks, and I have not used
the RW (CD or DVD) since they are usually 
more expensive.  If you watch for the sales, at least in Connecticut, you
can pick up blank DVDs for about 10 cents 
US apiece.  IO Magic (former IOMEGA) is usually on-sale about once a month
at Staples or Office Max.  Comp-USA 
seems to have a mid-night madness sale once a month, and a DVD-RW drive is
usually one of the lost leaders.

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>What brand mobo do you have?  I've had all sorts of problems since I got
>my current one, the worst being a failure of Java plugins.
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I've used these drives with MSI, Giga-byte, and others.  I have two OS2
computers and a Windows computer that I 
keep running.  When I upgrade a drive, I will move it to the second optical
drive or put it into an old system that I am 
building for someone.  All three of my computers have two optical drives to
allow me to keep one loaded with 
documentation of various flavors.  I also use DVDs as backup:  zipping the
base drives individually onto one drive, 
and then using mkisofs2 to create a DVD image and dvddao to burn the DVD. 
Usually two or three DVDs will hold a 
complete backup when my drives are zipped.

I have not used the dual-layer capability yet.  I keep checking, and the
decent dual-layer blanks that I find still cost 
more than twice a single-layer.


>>I use the  cdr-tools and their DVD equivalent.  I do not use RSJ.
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>>Lloyd
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>Everything I've recorded on CD has been with CDR/2.  I had to use slower
>and slower speeds to get a good burn.  Now it declares a good recording
>but there's nothing on the CD.
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>I've only got RSJCD apparently functioning in the last few days.  I've
>never actually got any results from RSJ (It falsely declares a good
>recording too).  But once I figured out how in tarnation the thing was
>actually supposed to operate (Figuring it out was not at all the fault
>of the documentation. That should be in big, bold letters right up at
>the top.) I figured it was potentially the way to go.
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>Jim L, via eCS 1.2r version of OS/2
>-- 
>One class of person should NEVER be allowed to run a nation - anyone
who wants to.
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