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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: DVD burners
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R. W. wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying an IDE DVD burner, ideally one of the new 
> double-layer type.
> 
> Are these generic products? If not, what should I choose or avoid?

Your mileage may vary.  Consider: 
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/hcn.html

> My computer is a 700 MHz  P3 coppermine with 512 Mbytes  of PC100 ram, 
> is it going to be fast enough?

Sure.  Oh, it's possible you can run into problems with your ATA cabling or 
the controller, but if you've got decent hardware you should be fine.

-- 
-Chuck