[Gllug] IDE CD burners

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Thu Feb 21 16:21:41 UTC 2002


On 2/21/02, 3:59:03 PM, Kim Hawtin <kim at aldigital.co.uk> wrote regarding 
Re: [Gllug] IDE CD burners:


> speaking of wierdness such as firewire, has anyone played with USB
> burners? or hdd's?  or for that matter ethernet, wireless ...
> especially under loonix?

USB under linux works very well these days, though for hot-plugging to 
work reliably you want 2.4 kernel, ime.  Also for hot-plugging be sure to 
compile *everything* usb as a module.

One area that is not so mature is the mass storage (HD, floppy etc).

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Bruce

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