One more thing....
The *only* benefit to the USB CD-RW would be portability, and you would no
doubt be paying a premium for that. If you don't plan on using the CD-RW
drive on multiple computers, I wouldn't bother with the USB.
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Ed Tharp wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
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