[Gllug] usb dvd writer

[Stephen Harker]

On Tuesday 25 March 2003 11:32 am, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> > Is there any compelling reason why the burner needs to be external? DVD
> > writers are fairly expensive and an external on could quite easily walk
> > out of the office. Can USB (version 1 rated at 12 Mbps ) support the
> > 10.4 Mbps (1x burn speed = 1.3MB/s*8) bandwidth required for a DVD
> > burner? Even if it was they only device on the root hub I would say
> > probably not. Best bet IMHO is get an internal SCSI.
>
> it's not in an office, it's co-located and rackmounted
> no space left in the server :(
>
> and it would be USB 2 which is rated at 480 Mbps, so that should be okay

Bear in mind that USB2.0 is still "experimental". It mostly works but not 
always and usually only with the newest kernels. YMMV.
SteveH

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