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Re: USB CD-RW for linux



On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:32:40PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 13:59, Ahmed Charles wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good  USB 
> > CD-RW drive with linux support. As I'm not familiar with usb and linux, I 
> > don't know if its as setup friendly as with windows.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Ahmed Charles
> 
> As long as your computer supports USB 2.0, you've got quite a few
> options. You can now get an external IDE enclosure (usually about $40 -
> 70 US) that supports just about any internal IDE device you want. This

How does this external enclosure connect to the computer?  USB? IDE?
Firewire? SCSI?

If it's not IDE or SCSI, then the enclosure should take care of the
USB/FireWire signaling, right?



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