I have a USB cd writer, I have not been able to get working under any flavor
of linux (altho I must admit I have given up on most flavors other than L-M.
I have been using 7.2. I do get a lot of buffer errors, more when I run
seti-at-home. I Strongly would recommend an IDE or SCSI burner.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] USB CDRW
> 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,
> --
> Dennis M. registered linux user # 180842
>
>
