Re: USB 1.1 too slow for burning DVD's [update/revisited]

2008-12-06 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 05:10:06AM EST, Paolo wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:41:29PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > Do you know of good in-depth documentation of linux+PC hardware issues? > > > > sorry, overlooked this one - well there's plenty of resources out there, > check /Documentat

Re: USB 1.1 too slow for burning DVD's [update/revisited]

2008-12-06 Thread Paolo
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:41:29PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > Do you know of good in-depth documentation of linux+PC hardware issues? > sorry, overlooked this one - well there's plenty of resources out there, check /Documentation dir in Linux tree, and perhaps also wiki.kernel.org for many h

Re: USB 1.1 too slow for burning DVD's [update/revisited]

2008-11-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:05:29PM EST, Paolo wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:07:25PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > ... > > now strongly suspect that I could have bought an external USB DVD burner > > at a lesser cost and that I would have had no problems burning my > > backups via this slow chan

Re: USB 1.1 too slow for burning DVD's [update/revisited]

2008-11-18 Thread Paolo
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 05:07:25PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: ... > now strongly suspect that I could have bought an external USB DVD burner > at a lesser cost and that I would have had no problems burning my > backups via this slow channel. I'm not going to buy an external burner ... > DVD+RW will

USB 1.1 too slow for burning DVD's [update/revisited]

2008-11-17 Thread Chris Jones
I eventually bought a Panasonic UJ850 DVD burner and I am able to copy my daily backup to a DVD+WR w/o any problems. I have done a few restores to confirm that. Since my daily backup resides on a Flash Drive accessed via USB 1.1, I now strongly suspect that I could have bought an external USB DVD