Samsung dvd writer for the eeet

Introducing the samsung super writemaster se-s204, costing 60 euro at mediamarkt, and about as big as heavy as the eee 701. A very dark plastic box. I actually wanted the sleek LG from a previous post, but the thing is either sold out, or twice the price of this samsung. The LG would have been fully USB-powered, which can be either practical or unusable, we will never know. The samsung at least comes with a sold power brick that raises confidence. Good point: the power brick is connected by cords to the drive and the wall outlet, so no huge thing blocking neighbouring wall outlets.



It also comes with a stand to put the thing on its side. This is for people that have the ability not to knock over stuff and have no cats.

It burns stuff with the usual tools, get cdtools from the debian repository. reminder:

http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/cdrecording/#toc10

giving the device name is not really necessary.

lightscribe works!:

get drivers from hp
http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadsection/linux/index.aspx

there is also a very dumb labeler, plus an sdk for the people that like to do things by themselves.

Instead I got the lacie program to do pictures. This requires doing the conversion of the lacie rpms to .debs. I used the --script option, you never now what it might be good for.

Burn the image using sudo 4L-gui




Now play music, as usual not with amarok because it plays with frequent hick-ups when you are also doing other stuff.

get setcd to set the speed to 1 for cds and dvds without hearing the cd spin like mad

setcd -x 1

run mplayer with cache to make it go smooth

mplayer -cache 1000 cdda:// /dev/cdroms/

don't forget to unset the cd speed later on (or just replug the cd drive?).

more cd copying tips