lightscribe cd/dvd writers and linux

[Lai Zit Seng]

Steven Pasternak wrote:
> 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)?

I believe at this time there isn't any native Linux way to do it. The
Linux version of Nero does not support LightScribe (though their Windows
version does). The labeling function aside, a LightScribe drive is
pretty much standard and definitely they work well under Linux :)

Regards,

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