On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 11:22:48PM -0800, Heather Stern wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:32:55PM -0500, Michel Hardy-Vall?e wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'd like to know if any of you could recommend a good external USB CD-RW > > known to work correctly with Woody. The usb-linux page shows these > > device as being in experimental support, but are they usable to read & > > burn CD-ROM/CD-R/CD-RW ? > > > > Regards > > Michel Hardy-Vall?e > > I haven't played with USB based CD/CDRW, but I have a tidbit to add; I > use a PCMCIA/ATAPI based one. At some point I wistfully noted that it'd > be handy to get the USB cable, then I could use it with desktops (well, > modern ones) too. A colleague at the table tsk'tsk'd that PCMCIA is a > faster bus. > > Not being a board-level engineer, I'm not actually *sure* he's correct, > but if so, you might consider that in your plans.
A quick check reveals: USB1.1 is certainly slower than any PCMCIA device, USB2 is faster than the old 16-bit cards and is probably fast enough (at up to 60MB/s ish), but is still much slower than a cardbus interface. DMA may be an issue too. hth nyk -- /__ \_|\/ /\
