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?
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