USB 2.0 Burner in USB 1.0 Port

spitty27

spitty27

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Hi,

My employer wanted to reward me for all my summer work at school, and she has purchased for me a USB 2.0 external burner. I am HOPING that it will run off my USB 1.0 port on my PowerBook G3 Pismo. I know USB 2.0 is backwards compatible, but do you think they made it so the plug is also backwards compatible, meaning, I would be able to plug the USB 2.0 cord into my computer (I know it will fit), but the question is if toast or my computer will be able to recognize the drive. If it works, I would be really happy. But it probably wont burn as fast as it would if it were plugged into a USB 2.0 port. The burner is 48x cd-r, do you know how fast it would go through USB 1.0?

any help much appreciated

p.s. im picking up the burner tomorrow, so i'll let you know how it goes.

EDIT: is there a USB 2.0 to FW 400 converter?
 
If it does work, you'll be burning at 8x max, maybe even 4x or 2x. Every USB 1 burner I've personally used has only worked reliably at 2x.
 
USB 1.1 only supports 4x4x6x.

However, you can get a Cardbus USB 2.0 card to run it at full speed for not so bad - Belkin (I think) makes a Mac-compatible PC card.

And yes, Toast should recognize the drive with no trouble.
 
yup, you were right. well, since im running 7b28, toast doesnt work on my computer, so i plugged the burner to my sister's ibook and toast read it with no problems. ican burn from usb 1.1 at 4x. how much does the belkin card cost? and it is for sure full speed 48x?
 
FYI, USB 2 is backward compatible with USB 1.1 in that you can connect either version to the other (USB 2 burner to USB 1.1 bus, and vice versa) and, either way, you will get USB 1.1 speed.
 
yeah im thinking about getting the Dlink...kinda short on cash tho if i wanna do the powerlogix 900 upgrade and buy a 512 chip. hrm....what to do what to do...what do you think is most important?
 
yeah probably power...i think ill go with the ram module first, then the powerlogix upgrade. if i have any money left over, im buying the Dlink
 
forgot to mention either a 50 or 100pack of 700MB cd-r. anyone know where i could get them REAAAAAAAAAAAAALLY cheap?
 
wow! thank you so much...that saves me $17...now does anyone know if roxio toast will be working in panther GM? is this a job on apple's part to make it compatible, or does roxio have to release a whole new version for panther? if it will, then ill go ahead and buy the card. if not, then uh...its not worth it.
 
hey im burning 7b44, and toast picked it up on 24x!???????? im plugged into the ibook (500mhz) pretty sure usb 1.1........but i did check speed feature, and it was going fine. right now im selected on 24x and it said 3 minutes counting, but the seconds are going down REALLY slow...like every 5 seconds it goes down 1.....any ideas?
 
It did that on my iMac at one point, as well. I think it was also burning at 24x... that was the maximum speed I could select, either 24x or 32x, on a 52x24x52 burner. Recently, I was able to select 40x, and it went much more quickly. It might just be a quirk in the software.
 
well thats cool, see i was told i would only be able to burn at 4x..on 1.1........well, it finished, and im booting off it just to make sure its all o.k. did urs also go really slow? it said 3 min but tooke like 15
 
I don't know, I didn't stick around to find out. I did something else, often a good idea when burning a disk without good multitasking/preemptive memory.
 
There's NO WAY actually burn faster than ~4x on USB 1.1. The connection simply isn't fast enough. So, Toast is lying to you.

Doug

BTW, why didn't you have her get you a Firewire burner? Just wondered.
 
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