On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:16:22 -0600 The Other <sstubbs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for all of the replies. I hadn't considered a Minidisc > recorder, but after considering that a Minidisc has moving parts, my > old engineering background decided a mechanical failure would occur > sometime in the future and I'd have to research this problem again. > > Next I saw this review of the Zoom H2 recorder: > http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/09/13/review-zoom-h2-surround-recorder.html > > That was an impressive review outlining a very intelligently designed > recorder. > > I went to the Zoom website to see if I could download the user's > manual. http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/h2/ > I could. Any company that will provide the user manual online always > has my referral, and most often my purchase. > > The H2 user manual states the supported Operating Systems are Windows > XP, Windows Vista, and MacOSX 10.2 or later. > > As stated above, I'm running openSUSE 10.2 with a 2.6.x kernel. Is > there any chance I'd be able to run the H2 through a USB port into my > kernel and have all the functionality mentioned in the user manual? If they are telling the truth about the spec (and I don't see why they wouldn't) then you should have no problems. It's mass storage at 'full speed' i.e. 'fast' USB 1.1 (which is actually a bit slow) -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
