CD burning - hardware compatibility

[Gary Allen Garibaldi]

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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?
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
Daniel

Attached is a copy of my fstab. I recently replaced a cdrw with a
dvd/cdrw by plugging it in, rebooting and everything just worked
including DVD burning as long as I made an iso file first for the DVD.

> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/sda3       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> /dev/sda1       /boot           ext3    defaults        0       2
> /dev/sda4       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
> /dev/sda2       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

Hope this helps.

Gary
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