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Re: This RULES, if you have any cash, I highly recommend this
I paid $375 for it over at www.avlogic.com. Its the white box version of
the drive (no manuels, just the drive, cables and drivers) and it comes
with 1 blank 4.7GB dvd-ram disc and 1 blank 4.7GB dvd-r disc. So far it
has been well worth the investment.
jason
On Sat, 05 Jan 2002, Dave W wrote:
> Cool! Congrats! Sounds great ... thanks a LOT for probably costing me
> some more money on this hobby :-)
>
> How much did you pay for your writer, and how much for media?
>
> dave w
>
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 00:44:23 -0500
> [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Ok, I have just gotten a DVD-RAM to work under linux!! How do you do
> > this? simple emulate scsi, enable UDF write support, and you are in
> > business.
> >
> > DVD-RAM is similar to CD-RW, except it its for dvds. The drive I have
> > (panasonic lf-d311), supports 4.7 and 9.4 GB disks (yes GB). It also
> > does dvd-r for non-rewriteable stuff. It also doesn't need dvd-ram media
> > in a cartrige (though it can use that media too), it just looks like a
> > regular dvd (but the back of the disk looks different).
> >
> > I now have a high density removable media that couldn't be easier to use
> > (its actually easier to use than in windows...though windows isn't bad).
> > I can't beleive how well this works in linux, and all I had to do was
> > enable it in the kernel. I was able to transfer a 1GB directory to the
> > disk in about 15 minutes (does this compare well to cd-rw?), and then
> > deleted it, which happened instantaneously.
> >
> > long story short, DVD-RAMs work great under linux, and if you have the
> > money, its worth picking up.
> >
> > peace
> >
> > jason
> >
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