On 2000-10-21 04:13, Drew Parsons wrote: >> It's been suggested that I get an Adaptec Miniscsi carbus card, and hook a >> plextor burner to it. I'm looking for a good balance of price and speed >> in my options - i know a parallel port is out and USB isnt a good idea, so >> is a scsi card my only option? > >About USB, I was looking at the Linux USB page recently, and it doesn't seem >to be quite nearly not a good idea as it used to be. That is, it is >apparently working just fine! > >I was checking out the 250MB zip drives and a couple of printers. They used >to have problems, but apparently with the 2.2.17 kernel they've started >working. > >I haven't tried it myself, but it would seem there's no need to be in such a >rush to dis USB these days.
I have just bought a desktop machine with USB keyboard. The USB keyboard works well with the system BIOS and runs fine with Linux 2.4.0-test9 (I haven't tried earlier versions)! Sure this doesn't help much for USB ZIP drives etc, but the core USB code seems to work fine. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
