On Sunday 04 March 2001 19:42, you wrote:
> I am debating to get a usb CDRW or get the IDE interior drive. I have two
> questions:
> 1. How do I get my LM7.2 system to recognize the USB Burner
> 2. Any advice on which is the better buy...interior or exterior?
> 3. What are the speeds 4x4x6...vs....8x4x32, etc relative to....I am
> having trouble
> understanding how to judge relative speed....is a 4x4x6 fast enough ?
>
> That is all the q's that I have right now. Thanks for your help.
> Kevin
I don't know about the usb support on 7.2, your chances may be better on the
next release 8.0. With that said, from what I have seen and my setups I went
with two internals since I could get two for less than a usb or serial
external at the time. Here is the thing, data transfer on usb is supposed to
be high speed, but a cdrw can only handle so fast a speed as the buffers and
read will allow. When a cdrw is designated a 4x4x6 for example: 4x write and
4x rewrite and 6x read with the x standing for the speed = to 4 times 150kbs
or 600kbs of data transfer for a maximum. So you see the usb is capable of
the data transfers of most any cdrw but it is the cdrw speed that governs the
process. The other factor to consider is the buffer mem of the cdrw the
higher the number the less chance of getting a bad burn.due to what is called
buffer overrun. You now know everything that I know about cdrw's. Hope this
helped or at least did not hurt. If anyone out there sees an error in my
discourse please jump in here and correct me. Good luck,
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Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
