On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 08:47:35PM -0500, Alexander Boulgakov wrote: | I have an older laptop, only USB (1.1 only I think, but I heard USB2.0 | is backwards compatible) and PCMCIA ports avalable. I want to get a CD | burner, and, as far as I can tell, PCMCIA doesn't provide enough bus | bandwidth to burn reliably (I have 32 bit, though, so I don't know about | that).
Even the older 16 bit PCMCIA cards can do 5 MB/s without a problem. USB 1.1 tops out at 1.2 MB/s, which means that your burner can only do 4x safely. PCMCIA is plenty fast for all but the fastest burners. -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat? _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
