on 31/5/02 6:53 am, Steve Bell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 31/5/02 12:35 am, "Van Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have had more trouble out of a USB cd burner than I ever have out of any >> extrernal SCSI device. Snip > The best USB CD burners will normally do is x4, but you are using a USB card > not built in USB. Here I find the PCI bus in older Power Macs, pre G3, is > slow and can cause intermittent or consistent failure. Printers work fine, > but CD burners and scanners, no. SCSI is ideal, never a problem. I use SCSI > on my G3 upgraded 7600, no problems with a Lacie burner, Microtek scanner, > Polaroid slide scanner, zip, external HD. I've an extended SCSI chain on my 7300 (Powerlogix 350Mhz/G4 - 224Mb) which gives no trouble at all but have tried several different PCI USB cards (with Apple USB 1.4.1 Support) with no success at all. I primarily wanted a USB connection to give me an extended printer choice but have had to fall back on PowerPrint via the printer port (which, in fact, works very well). What I do lack are the extended options available via USB. Some do work (cartridge level checks for instance) but, when trying to print a test page, it will invariably stop before completion with an error box asking me to check the connection. I've tried both of the USB outlets and tried the card in all of the available PCI slots but to no avail. I would like, sometime, to get a digital camera but am uncertain whether downloading the images would work via USB.
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