USB DVD burner?

[Kooldino]

Ok, I need a reccomendation here. I need a USB 2.0 DVD burner (that's reverse compatible with USB 1.x), that will CERTAINLY work with Norton Ghost.

Any ideas?

[rylan]

Plextor PX-708UF if you want + and - burn capability. According to the datasheet its USB2.0 but also works with 1.1 (although painfully slow as expected). I have no idea on what all is compatible with ghost for dvd though. You'd think Plextor would work with it, since their burners are top of the line.

[Kooldino]

Hmm, so this points to the fact that it SHOULD work...but sometimes it may have issues...

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/8f7dc138830563c888256c2200662ecd/96b904623738ec8e88256d50006131aa?OpenDocument&prod=Norton%20Ghost&ver=2003%20for%20Windows%202000/NT/Me/98/XP&src=sg&pcode=ghost&svy=&csm=no

[rylan]

Hrm.. wierd. Not sure how that would effect the DVD burners, since that article is about a year old. I'd hope they fixed that by now.

[Claymonkey]

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-106-944&depa=0

I have the 4x version of this ($30 cheaper) and the thing works fine with no drivers (versus the backpack units we have at work). How are you getting usb drives to work in DOS though? or am I just out of the dos/ghost loop now

[Wombat]

Originally posted by rylan
You'd think Plextor would work with it, since their burners are top of the line.

<B>Were.</B> Plextor has really been cutting corners the past few years, and OEMing, I think. I don't trust their stuff the way I used to.

[Tjalfe]

Originally posted by dparadis
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...106-944&depa=0

I have the 4x version of this ($30 cheaper) and the thing works fine with no drivers (versus the backpack units we have at work). How are you getting usb drives to work in DOS though? or am I just out of the dos/ghost loop now

Ghost has dos drivers for USB/USB2/Firewire included.. they appear to be Iomega drivers and do work. for the USB2 ones, I had to unplug EVERYTHING else but the drive to make it work, but it did work. It was an external USB2 HDD I used at the time

[Kurt]

Panasonic also have USB1.1/2.0 DOS drivers. You can google them...they're pretty generic so they should work with a variety of equipment.

[Kooldino]

Interesting.

I wish I could email symantec somehow and ask them if it's compatible.