This one time, at band camp, Andre Pang wrote: >I've got a USB printer working on my server without any hassle.
Yet Another USB Success story: the Iomega ZIP CD 650 USB cd burner, burns CDR and CDRW at 4x. Merely build a 2.4 kernel with scsi support, scsi generic, scsi cd (if you want to be able to use it for reading) and then the usb-storage module. Install the usb-storage and sg modules into the kernel (and sd_mod (or was it sr_mod -- or both)) after plugging the device into the bus, and it should magically show up: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 639 usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIPCD 650 USB Rev: I2,2 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Then it's just a matter of finding things to burn. As for pretty clicky interfaces, I recommend gcombust over gtoaster, the interface while not perfect is reasonably clear, and during my experiments, I burnt 3 coasters out of 3 with gtoaster, and only 2 out of 5 with gcombust. As for system load, burning over USB takes up next to nothing, no user space load, no kernel space load! Meanwhile ripping using my IDE DVD-ROM takes up so much load from system calls, that my ppp connection is guaranteed to drop out due to starvation. Go USB! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
