On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:14:07PM EDT, Paolo wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:18:30PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > The old laptop only has USB 1.1 and I believe I read somewhere - can't > > find where .. that this is too slow to burn DVD's .. only CD's. > > > > Is there any truth to this .. any workaround? > > %man cdrecord > ... > > speed=# > Set the speed factor of the writing process to #. # is an inte- > ger, representing a multiple of the audio speed. This is about > 150 KB/s for CD-ROM, about 172 KB/s for CD-Audio and about > 1385 kB/s for DVD media. > ... > > so, burning CD should be fine on "USB" (non Hi-Speed) which is limited to > 12Mbps / 1.5Mbps, but DVD burning won't work since min requirement is > ~13.5Mbps sustained data rate. Hi-Speed USB (included in 2.0) tops at > 480Mbps, enough for the fastest DVD writers. > > > -- > paolo
Thanks! I'll read the doc .. but it looks like I really need to buy a new laptop .. I was planning to do it this Xmas .. but what with the "economy" I'm not sure it's the way to go any more.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
