[KLUG Members] Re: IDE cd burner

[Bryan J. Smith]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> i.e.  How fast a USB CD burner create a CDR?  1X?  2X?  4X?  8X?  12X? ...
> (assuming a reasonably fast CPU doing nothing else, and no other USB devices)
> Has anyone actually tried one?

10x Theoretical with no hic-ups.  I've only seen one 8x for
USB/parallel, whereas all others are 4x.  I wouldn't chance it at
>4x because of the overhead with USB.

> I would mind getting a portable CDR drive for my laptop and other machines
> (VERY LOW USAGE), and USB seems to be more portable than SCSI (since most of
> these machines don't currently have SCSI).

Blame Intel for not making FireWire standard after promising to do
so 3 years ago.  Rumor has it the ViA/AMD chipsets coing out next
year will come with it as _standard_.  Firewire finally brings SCSI
speeds and DMA without the cabling mess in the absence of USB being
anything useful for drives.

-- TheBS

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