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I need to get a dvd burner but I don't know if one will run on my computer. I have a 800 MHz duron cpu, 256 megs of pc133 memory, two 40 GB hard drives with 12 GB free space on my boot drive.and 18 GB free space on my back up drive and an iwill kk266 mobo.

Can I run a dvd burner on this system? If I can how fast can it be? Should I look for an 8x or could I use a 16x burner? Which brand is supported best in linux? Thankx for any help you can give me.

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dvd burner for 6 year old

Submitted by pinniped on Wed, 2007-12-12 02:36.

I have always had a good experience with Panasonic and Phillips CD/DVD burners. As for what will work on your old PC, any with the old "ATA" interface (also known, sometimes incorrectly, as IDE, EIDE, and PATA). You probably don't want a drive with a SATA or SCSI interface unless you already have the appropriate adapter. NEVER get an 'LG' drive - LG does a half-ass job of engineering and as far as I know LG products are nothing but trouble. (Hardly surprising, since LG means "low grade".)

The higher speed burners can reliably drop to lower write speeds, but look for online reviews by linux users just to be safe.

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Submitted by Eeltje on Wed, 2007-12-12 05:15.

My computer is similar. I use a NEC ND 3550A (dual layer), no problem what so ever...
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Eeltje de Vries

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Submitted by debianfan on Sun, 2007-12-16 14:59.

Hey Eeltje , I found a NEC burner on ebay that's the same as the one you have. What brand of dvd+r's and dvd+rw's have you found work best with this burner? Have you tried formatting any dvd+rw's with k3b?

I read the single sided dvd+rw's are better than the double sided (double layer) dvd+rw's. Is that true?

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Submitted by debianfan on Wed, 2007-12-12 15:22.

Thankx pinniped for your help. I got the impression from a google search that the only burners for linux were Lit On and Plextor. I'm glad other burners work too.

I have another question for you guys. I'm using Etch and does K3b really format dvd+rw's and or dvd-rw's so I can use them like a floppy disk? Do I have to compile the kernel for udf to make that work? Is there anyway to udf a cd-rw?

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Submitted by pinniped on Thu, 2007-12-13 05:56.

I have had nothing but bad experiences with multi-session discs and I have been avoiding them for 10 years now. I would recommend writing all data in a single session rather than writing incrementally as if it were a special type of floppy disk.

The Debian kernels with a UDF option in the source code have UDF support compiled as a module; you just need to load the module to read the data discs and you can use the tools in the 'udftools' package to prepare and write data to DVD.

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Submitted by debianfan on Wed, 2007-12-12 15:23.

Thankx for your help Eeltje, I'm glad dual layer works in linux. I have about 40 GB's of data files to backup so I'm glad I dual layer works.

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Submitted by debianfan on Thu, 2007-12-13 16:39.

Hi pinniped, Okay right now I'm using Debian kernel 2-6-18-5-486. Does that one have this udf stuff I need in it? I already installed udftools and dvd+rw-tools. I'll look for a burner on ebay. Thankx for all your help guys.

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Submitted by pinniped on Thu, 2007-12-13 16:45.

I'm pretty sure 2.6.18 has UDF support, but it's easy to check:

less /boot/config-$(uname -r)

Then enter:
/UDF
and that should search for 'UDF'. You should see something like:
CONFIG_UDF_FS=m

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Submitted by debianfan on Thu, 2007-12-13 16:59.

Okay, I typed in the first line but when I type in /udf I get Pattern not found (press RETURN)

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Submitted by pinniped on Fri, 2007-12-14 00:45.

You need to type "/UDF", not "/udf" - most UNIX programs care about the case of the character.

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Submitted by debianfan on Fri, 2007-12-14 01:18.

Okay, I typed it in and I got all this:

CONFIG_UDF_FS=m
CONFIG_UDF_NLS=y

#
# DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
#
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1"
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
# CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y

#
# Pseudo filesystems
#
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
# CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is not set

Is that good or bad?

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Submitted by pinniped on Fri, 2007-12-14 17:34.

That's telling you that the UDF filesystem is built as a module, so you can just log in as root and do:

modprobe udf

Or if you use it a lot, put the name into the /etc/modules file:

udf

and it will magially load at boot time.

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Submitted by debianfan on Fri, 2007-12-14 22:14.

Thank you. I'll have to get a dvd burner now. And I need to upgrade my mobo for a sata hd and what mobo's run best with linux? Is ECS or MSI or Asus okay? I see a lot of those on ebay. Does linux support the AMD AM2 CPU's?

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Submitted by debianfan on Sun, 2007-12-16 15:02.

Hey Eeltje , I found a NEC burner on ebay that's the same as the one you have. What brand of dvd+r's and dvd+rw's have you found work best with this burner? Have you tried formatting any dvd+rw's with k3b?

I read the single sided dvd+rw's are better than the double sided (double layer) dvd+rw's. Is that true?

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Submitted by Eeltje on Mon, 2007-12-17 04:47.

I have used may different kinds of DVD+R and DVD+RW: TDK DVD+R 1-16x, Maxell DVD+RW 1-4x, Nashua DVD+R (double layer) and others. All work perfectly!

Last time I tried I could not format a DVD+RW with k3b. Instead I formatted at the command line:

dvd+rw-format -force /dev/hdc

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Eeltje de Vries

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Submitted by debianfan on Mon, 2007-12-17 06:23.

Thank you. I'll try the Maxell for dvd+rw. I always had good luck with sony and fujifilm with my teac cd burner.but never with memorex.

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DVD burner and UDF module

Submitted by Hoang Pham on Mon, 2007-12-17 10:24.

Does burning DVD's w/out loading the UDF module cause any ill-effects?

My attempts at burning video-DVDs, authored w/ DVD Styler, have not been successful. The DVDs cannot be played in stand-alone players.

I did run
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=dvd.iso

Thanks in advance,
Hoang

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DVD burner and UDF module

Submitted by Eeltje on Tue, 2007-12-18 05:05.

I have never used UDF, can not tell you!
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Eeltje de Vries

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