Toshiba SDM-1212: A good buy?

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From: Phillip Pi
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:00

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I am thinking of buying this particular model, but I have a few
questions to ask and would love to have your feedbacks:

1) Does it handle all kinds of CDRs and CDRWs well? The old
   Toshiba CD-ROM drives couldn't do CDRW, and most CDRs.
2) How's the spindown time? Is the time longer in this model?
3) How about games with copy protection (e.g. SafeDisc)? Can this model
   handle it? I know Toshiba Plextor models have problems.

I am planning to get a Matrox G400 MAX with this drive as well.

Award Bios Intel Pentium II 300 Mhz (DFI P2XBL motherboard revision A
-- 440BX 100 Mhz bus tower with 128 MB of SDRAM (PC100), ATX Full
Tower Case, 300W power supply, 2 ISA, 3 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 Shared PCI/ISA
Slot, 512K L2 cache, IBM P72 17" monitor, Diamond Stealth64 3000 with
4 MB VRAM (S3 Vision 968 PCI), Creative Labs 3D Blaster (PCI, Voodoo 2,
3Dfx, 12 MB, using CL's lastest drivers), Creative Labs Sound Blaster
16 (ISA; non-PNP) with its Wave Blaster II daughtercard, 24X Toshiba
XM-6102B IDE CD-ROM drive, Yamaha CRW 4260 (SCSI), Diamond Fireport 40
PCI (SCSI-3), USR 33.6k Sportster external modem (Model: 0413; Product
Code: 000839-03), 6.4 GB Quantum Fireball EIDE (6.4EX-A) hard drive,
3.1 GB Western Digital Caviar EIDE hard drive, a 2-buttons Logitech
mouse, Microsoft Windows 98 (disabled Active Desktop), RedHat Linux
v5.1, two regular computer fans (CPU and normal) and 1 custom fan for
3Dfx card, and a HP DeskJet 560c printer. Running Yamaha Sondius XG
SoftSynthesizer v1.0 for better wavetable sounds than the WaveBlaster
II in Windows 98.

Thank you in advance for replies. :)
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From: Phillip Pi <philpi@earthlink.netANT>
Subject: Toshiba SDM-1212: A good buy?
Date: 1999/10/20
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