lightscribe cd/dvd writers and linux
Steven Pasternak
stevenp500 at bellsouth.net
Sun Jul 23 05:47:22 UTC 2006
Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 22 July 2006 17:27, Steven Pasternak wrote:
>
>> Hi! I was wondering how well lightscribe cd/dvd writers work under
>> linux? They are the ones that can also burn pictures and stuff on one
>> side of the media and data/music on the other. I don't want to bother
>> getting it if I can't use that feature (no, I won't use Windoze,
>> either!). If anyone has any experience with it, do please tell.
>> Thanks! -Steven
>>
>
> I have one built into the HP lappy I bought last spring, with a dual
> boot of xp and fc5. Under fc5, with the newest bios, it works
> perfectly, but even when empty it tends to be very verbose in the logs
> about some minor thing. So apparently fc5's bus scanner is alive and
> well, and it should learn to shut up if there's no disk in the drive.
> But, I haven't made a coaster with it yet either. OTOH, I'm not
> feeding it any lightscribe compatible disks until they're considerably
> more reasonably priced. $4/disk or more isn't in my budget. Me old
> fart, retired etc etc.
>
>
What program could I even use to write the label on the disc using the
drive's function (not printable paper labels, though)?
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