[lug] Redhat 8 and CD writer

[Hugh Brown]

Gordon Golding wrote:
> I have a couple of questions.  Anybody can give some guidance?
> 
> We have a windows PC with Redhat 8.0
> We want to back it up.  We'd very much like to use something other than tape; we'd like it compatible with microsoft PCs.
> We can't attach a USB 2.0 external drive because it doesn't "quite" work. 
> 
> Would a USB 1.1 external drive be supported by Redhat 8.0?
> 
> The windows PC reads the CD just fine.  As far as I know, the CD is HSFS.  If we used a PC with a CD/DVD RW, that would allow us to backup the Server - we wouldn't need the external drive.
> 
> If the CD works, should a CD-RW work?  Would the DVD RW work?
> 
> Gordon Golding
> Center for Spoken Language Research
> goldingg at cslr.colorado.edu
> 303-735-0317
> 



I know that a colleague used an external usb cdrw drive to write cds. 
Keep in mind that writing cds over a usb 1.1 link is going to be pretty 
slow.

Hugh