USB CD Burners?

[Brian Chabot]

Derek Martin wrote:
..
> FWIW it's about twice what you're looking to spend, but I think it's
> worth the extra money to get the DVD burner.  Huge amounts of data,
> fast fast fast.  And it burns CDs too, if that's all you really want.

It probably would be worth it, but alas, I'm cash strapped till I get a
real job.

> In theory, any drive should work fine, since they all pretty much just
> implement SCSI over USB.  That's well supported in the Linux kernel.
> But as with everything else, YMMV.

That's what I was hoping for, but I've had bad luck with no-name
internal burners before.  My "COMBO-52X16" DVD/CDRW won't detect the
presense of a blank disk.  Probably just needs a firmware update, but
I'm too lazy to pull it out of my desktop to get the actual manufacturer
name.  At least with a USB drive I can lug it to a Windows PC and run
any needed firmware updates.

I was thinking of getting a cheap LaCie, MadDog Multimedia, or Hi-Val
drive.  They're running under $70 at CompUSA...


Brian

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