<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 July 2017 at 11:56, Simon Greenwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sfgreenwood@gmail.com" target="_blank">sfgreenwood@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-">On 6 July 2017 at 11:31, Tony Pursell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony.pursell@gmail.com" target="_blank">tony.pursell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-m_-1335091936461797362HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-m_-1335091936461797362h5"><br><br>On Thursday, 6 July 2017, Steve Mynott <<a href="mailto:steve.mynott@gmail.com" target="_blank">steve.mynott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I'm looking for a cheap external DVD/CD USB drive (mainly to rip my<br>> own CDs and maybe burn some DVDs).<br>><br>> Can anyone recommend a model which works well with 16.04?<br>><br>> I have USB3 if that helps.<br>><br>> --<br>> 4096R/EA75174B Steve Mynott <<a href="mailto:steve.mynott@gmail.com" target="_blank">steve.mynott@gmail.com</a>><br>><br>> --<br>> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm<wbr>an/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a><br>> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam<wbr>/</a><br><br></div></div>I got a really cheap one from Ebuyer. No problem with it working. On 14.04 at that time.<span class="gmail-m_-1335091936461797362HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- </font></span></blockquote></span><div><br><div>Same, I've had the same Samsung burner from eBuyer for years, even works with a Raspberry Pi (slowly).<br><br></div><div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-m_-1335091936461797362gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline" class="gmail_default">And as if Amazon was reading my email *cough*, this turned up in Today's Deals just now:<br><br><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/External-Version-Pictek-Portable-Computer/dp/B01KWTM7F4/ref=pe_2118791_201439211_dotd_h_t">https://www.amazon.co.uk/External-Version-Pictek-Portable-Computer/dp/B01KWTM7F4/ref=pe_2118791_201439211_dotd_h_t</a><br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline" class="gmail_default">A USB 3 drive/burner for just over £20 with a couple of other alternatives at the bottom. There's no reason it shouldn't work with Ubuntu.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline" class="gmail_default">s/</div> </div></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><a> </a>Twitter: @sfgreenwood<div>“Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation.”—Alasdair Gray.<br></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></div>