Any experience with "LaCie Portable =?utf-8?q?DVD=C2=B1RW?=", together with a netbook, K3B and Kubuntu?

[Mark Greenwood]

On Tuesday 30 Mar 2010 21:45:22 Bas Roufs wrote:
> Hello Everybody
> 
> At present, I am considering to buy a small external USB 2.0 device.
> The device needs to be able to play and burn CD's and DVD's:  in
> collaboration with my
> ASUS Eee 1001 HА Netbook as well as with any other PC in a Kubuntu 9.10
> environment. Тhe device I am considering is a "LaCie Portable DVD±RW".
> According to the specs I have seen so far, the device seems to
> function with Linux and several other OS. See:
> http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=11351
> Does anybody have experience with such a device in combination with a
> netbook, K3B and Kubuntu?
> Thx for your reply. Respectfully yours,
> Bas.
> 
> 
USB drives all conform to a standard, so I doubt you'll have any difficulty getting it to work. I've never encountered a burner I couldn't use out of the box with Linux.

Mark