External USB Blu-Ray drives under Linux?

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I have a generic adapter (USB to 2.5" IDE, 3'5" IDE, and SATA) that works
fine on hard drives and DVD burners. Brasero and k3b work fine with that,
and say that they work with Blu-Ray as  well. I do not yet have a blu-ray
burner, but I plan to get one when media costs come down.
(generic USB/IDE/SATA adapters are available on Ebay).

Duncan

> Folks -
>
> I've outgrown by DVD storage, so I'm considering upgrading to an external
> USB connected Blu-Ray burner. Using an external USB-connected hard drive
> works great on this Suse Linux box, so I'm hoping there is a similar
> solution for Blu-Ray.
>
> Any comments on the feasibility of this? Does it require special software
> or can you simply mount the drive and copy to it?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated. Here's the description of this system:
>
> cat /etc/issue
> Welcome to openSUSE 10.3 (i586) - Kernel \r (\l).
>
> cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.22.19-0.4-default (geeko at buildhost) (gcc version 4.2.1
> (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP 2009-08-14 02:09:16 +0200
>
> Peter
>
>
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