CD burning - hardware compatibility

[Conrad Newton]

>From Antony Gelberg on Sunday, 2006-04-02 at 12:56:53 +0100:
> Daniel Carrera wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Right now I have a regular CD drive. I'm thinking of replacing it by a 
> >CD burner. My question is: can I just replace them and expect the CD 
> >burner to work?
> >
> >Last I checked, getting a CD burner working on Linux was a major 
> >operation, but that was several years ago. What are things like today? 
> >I'm also concerned about whether Ubuntu will recognize new hardware when 
> >I'm not doing a brand new installation.
> >
> >Help?
> 
> Just plug it in.  It'll be fine.  It used to be (before 2.6?) that SCSI 
> emulation was required for CD burning, but no more.  The ATAPI driver works.

Question:  does it work equally well?

Conrad