On November 14, 2003 03:23 pm, Joel Uckelman wrote: > Thus spake Fotios Nastos: > > I am thinking of gettig a USB external DVD burner. Are USB external > > burners as easy to use as internals? Perhaps a better question: are USB > > writers supported? Thanks. > > Yes, and yes. I burned my Fedora CDs on one in RH9, and my Fedora Source > CDs on one in FC1. Mine is an LG GCE-8520B in a USB enclosure. Setup > amounted to plugging it in. One caveat is that if you don't have USB 2.0, > your burn speed will be rather poor. (I'm able to burn reliably at about > 40x with the burner hooked to my USB 2.0 card.) Thank you very much. It does appear from http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Mass_Storage0.html and a couple of similar sites that some people are having trouble with DVDs. But I'll try to figure it out. Cheers.
