[KLUG Hardware] Lite-On Internal CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive

[Rusty Yonkers]

Mike Morrett wrote:

>I'm thinking about get the Lite-On 52x32x52 Internal CD-RW/DVD-ROM
>Drive (SOHC-5232K) at Amazon.com.
>
>They have it for $57.95 with the final cost to my door about
>$70.01.
>
>BUT, there seems to be some controversy about what drive they
>actually ship.  And, it looks like the drive actually comes from
>Office Depot.  BUT, I can't find ANY Lite-On (or LiteOn) drives at
>the Office Depot Web site.
>
>Question: Will this drive (SOHC-5232K) work with SuSE 9.x?
>
>Question: Any other good place to buy from?
>
>  
>
I am not sure if the Lite-On drive will work with SuSE 9.x but I know 
that you can get it for like $33.00 if you look on www.pricewatch.com 
for a vendor.  That is about half what you are looking at.  For the $$ 
you are looking at you can get a pretty nice DVD burner.  That is by far 
the way to go. They will burn CDs too!  Now if there was just a really 
nice video editing package and a nice dvd authoring package for Linux... 
Well video editing there is MainConcept.  I have tried the demo and it 
is not to bad.  DVD authoring is a whole other story though (And I am 
not talking about just burning the stuff to the disk!).  It is hard 
enough to find a good authoring program for Windows or Mac.