Re: USB CD-RW Drive

[Thomas Dodd <ted cypress com>]

peter hachmeister cunamutual com wrote:
> The reason I'd like to go with a USB CR/RW is that I want the flexibility
> to move the to/drive from various machines.

That's the same reason I got mine. To use at home and work, at the time
it was cheaper than 2 drives. Not the case now, but it's handy when
helping people out. I can take it and a runtime cd, boot the CD, and
backup data to a CDRW.

As I think I said befor, the Acer 4x4x6 I have works great.
The only issue I have is it doesn't record VCDs well :(
But I don't have the stuff to author yet anyway...

> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002,  Thomas Dodd commented thusly,
> > peter hachmeister cunamutual com wrote:
> >
> > > I have 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7-10) right now - but I can upgrade to 7.3 if

> > Is you USB card/chip supported?
> > What does 'lspci -v' and 'lsusb' show?

Grendel Wrote:
> Please consider buying a ide cd-writer like asus, which is the best brand
> IMHO. USB under linux is just such a pain in the ass for newbies, and
> besides usb is so slow, so please see if you can trade in your usb cd
> writer and get a good IDE writer, I recommend the asus brands for there

Except the IDE drive is not portable.
> > I haven't used a kernel that old in a while.
> > RHL-7.2 should be fine. You might want to get a new kernel,
> > the hotplug scripts, usbutils, and possibly cdrecord.
> > You should be able to rebuild SRPMs from RHL-7.3 and it's updates easily.
>
>
> I would suggest that you have a look at a lot of documents on how to
> configure USB for linux, basically linux USB support is terrible, if you

Compared to what? Windows crashing when you plug a device in?
Or telling you that the driver isn't recommended/signed?

> have a usb device and if it works automatically then you are ok, otherwise
> it means tinkering with various settings hotplug modules etc etc, reading
> the docs etc, its terrible.

You seam to have had a bad experience. My experiences aren't nearly
as bad. Now windoze is the opposite. Nothing but bad experiences there.
mine and others I know who ask for help.

	-Thomas