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Hello Wayne - 

->> I've noticed the dual layer DVD burners. 

WC> So haven't I!!! 

->> I kept telling my brother to wait on getting a DVD burner
->> until the "dust settled" and recently agreed with him that
->> now is/was the time. Unfortunately he wound up with the
->> single layer DVD burner JUST before the dual layers became
->> available from HP (he likes HP machines). 

WC> Blasted H.P. LG CD-ROM isn't liked by Debian Linux which
WC> Knoppix is based on :-( 

I'm really not happy about the way third party hardware
manufacturers play fast-n-loose with their drivers. There are
too many 'models' with very little to differentiate them from
one another. I suspect some electronics engineers trying to
look busy by rearranging the components at random with some
weak excuse their idiot managers can't understand. :-\ 

WC> Boots the ramdrive but fails and locks up with soundcard in
WC> :-( 

That's the other shoe that drops when trying to use Linux -
soundcard on the motherboard or combined modem/soundcard with
no Linux driver. 

WC> My last hard drive toasted so I'm ramdrive only here. 

How/why are you losing hard drives? 

->> Oh well, he can do over 4 gigs per disk so what's to not
->> like? :-) 

WC> LG, fortunately have another CD-ROM drive handy. Originally
WC> Acer. 

I have CD-ROM drives but no other burner. 

No further research into my problem today, was too busy all
day. :-\ 

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