According to Nate Bargmann, > * Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Dec 09 11:05 -0600]: > > According to Andreas Rippl, > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:07:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I'm contemplating adding a USB DVD burner to my system. Does anyone > > > > have any good or bad experiences with these? > > > > > > > > In theory it should be simple, but I thought I'd check on the practice > > > > first...:-) > > > > > > > just make sure you've got USB2... I am speaking out of experience. > > > > on both ends... I am speaking out of experience. > > I bought a refurbished Iomega USB CD-R/RW DVD drive and it supports > USB 2.0. This computer, did not. So, I bought a USB 2.0 capable PCI > card and it works like a champ under both k3b and XCDRoast. > > With the built-in USB 1.1 ports I had to force the write speed to 4x or > I'd get a coaster. Now it does 48x effortlessly.
For laptops, the cardbus USB2 cards work nicely too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
