External DVD burner: a query
Fotios Nastos
nastos at physics.utoronto.ca
Fri Nov 14 20:52:16 UTC 2003
On November 14, 2003 03:23 pm, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> Thus spake Fotios Nastos:
> > I am thinking of gettig a USB external DVD burner. Are USB external
> > burners as easy to use as internals? Perhaps a better question: are USB
> > writers supported? Thanks.
>
> Yes, and yes. I burned my Fedora CDs on one in RH9, and my Fedora Source
> CDs on one in FC1. Mine is an LG GCE-8520B in a USB enclosure. Setup
> amounted to plugging it in. One caveat is that if you don't have USB 2.0,
> your burn speed will be rather poor. (I'm able to burn reliably at about
> 40x with the burner hooked to my USB 2.0 card.)
Thank you very much. It does appear from
http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Mass_Storage0.html
and a couple of similar sites that some people are having trouble with DVDs.
But I'll try to figure it out. Cheers.
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