External DVD burner: a query

[Fotios Nastos]

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.