[SLUG] CD burners and USB2.
When last I asked for advice on buying a CD burner I was told to hold off until USB2 had established itself. Which is probably now. Has anyone had experience (good or otherwise) with a burner using USB2? Any advice will be gratefully received, Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] CD burners and USB2.
I have a plextor USB 24/10/40 works like a champ under RH7.3 - auto detection, auto setup. I literally plugged it in, and xcdroast found it and burned dics's beautifully. The plextor has burn-proof, so you won't burn coasters. The only thing is that RH7.3 has kernel 2.4.18, which I believe is pre USB2 - my plextor takes longer to burn cd's than my yamaha scsi 8x burner. ditto when I run grip to read cd's. my plextro (40x read) takes longer to read cd's than my yamahs scsi 24x reader. I'm sure that I'm not realizing USB V2 speeds. -Greg On 13-May-2002 Bill Bennett wrote: When last I asked for advice on buying a CD burner I was told to hold off until USB2 had established itself. Which is probably now. Has anyone had experience (good or otherwise) with a burner using USB2? Any advice will be gratefully received, Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug +-+ You can release software that's good, software that's inexpensive, or software that's available on time. You can usually release software that has 2 of these 3 attributes -- but not all 3. | Greg Hosler [EMAIL PROTECTED]| +-+ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] CD burners and USB2.
I think I read in a recent (2.5.something) Linux kernel changelog that they've just started on usb2 support. Might be backported to 2.4.x ... who knows. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] CD burners and USB2.
On 13-May-2002 Matthew Hannigan wrote: I think I read in a recent (2.5.something) Linux kernel changelog that they've just started on usb2 support. Might be backported to 2.4.x ... who knows. it likely will be. a usb burner is not a bad thing to buy. long term it will likely be well supported in version 2 mode. near term it will work very well in V1 mode, plus it has the flexability of being able to be switched between systems (should you have multiple systems). -Greg +-+ You can release software that's good, software that's inexpensive, or software that's available on time. You can usually release software that has 2 of these 3 attributes -- but not all 3. | Greg Hosler [EMAIL PROTECTED]| +-+ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] CD burners and USB2.
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:08:00PM +1000, Bill Bennett wrote: When last I asked for advice on buying a CD burner I was told to hold off until USB2 had established itself. Aww, no need to do that. I use a USB CD burner under Linux and it works perfectly. (I think it's called an Acer 8824MM). It also has a PCMCIA interface which works quite well, too. I burn at 6x with no dramas at all -- and as a bonus, if you have the required cd-burning tools installed (e.g. cdrecord), and your USB kernel drivers are all set up, the drive'll just pop up as a SCSI CD burner when you plug it in. There's nothing else to set up. Email me back if you'd like help with it. (Put me in the Cc: list otherwise I'll never get around to reading the mail :). Sorry I didn't really answer your question about USB2, though. -- #ozone/algorithm [EMAIL PROTECTED] - b.sc (comp. sci+psych) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
