On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:04:42AM -0500, David Smock wrote: > I've got a Dell Inspiron 5000, and im looking to get a burner. > > It's been suggested that I get an Adaptec Miniscsi carbus card, and hook a > plextor burner to it. I'm looking for a good balance of price and speed in my > options - i know a parallel port is out and USB isnt a good idea, so is a scsi > card my only option? > About USB, I was looking at the Linux USB page recently, and it doesn't seem to be quite nearly not a good idea as it used to be. That is, it is apparently working just fine! I was checking out the 250MB zip drives and a couple of printers. They used to have problems, but apparently with the 2.2.17 kernel they've started working. I haven't tried it myself, but it would seem there's no need to be in such a rush to dis USB these days. Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
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