CD burning - hardware compatibility

[Antony Gelberg]

Conrad Newton wrote:
>>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?

In my experience, yes.  This is fairly well documented, try google 
"cdrecord 2.6 scsi emulation".