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Article #707208Re: Toshiba SDM-1212: A good buy?
From: Neil Fallon
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 00:00
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I have one and have no problems with it. Neil P. Fallon nfa...@msn.com Phillip Pi <philpi@earthlink.netANT> wrote in message news:380E61D2.B840A5D2@earthlink.netANT... > 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. :) > -- > If you are replying to Ant's news post by e-mail, please kindly remove > ANT in the return e-mail address or the ones listed below. Note: CaSe! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > /\___/\ Phillip Pi (Ant) from Netscape Communicator's Messager. > / /\ /\ \ E-mail: philpi@earthlink.netANT, philpi@apu.eduANT, > | |. .| | or harvester_ant@hotmail.comANT > \ _ / The Ant Farm Home Page: http://antfarm.home.dhs.org > ( ) ICQ UIN: 2223658 > >
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From: "Neil Fallon" <nfa...@msn.com> Subject: Re: Toshiba SDM-1212: A good buy? Date: 1999/10/21 Message-ID: <utF9YH4G$GA.360@cpmsnbbsa05> X-Deja-AN: 538705432 References: <380E61D2.B840A5D2@earthlink.netANT> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom.reviews,alt.cd-rom,alt.video.dvd.complain,alt.video.dvd.software,alt.video.dvd.tech,alt.video.dvd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,rec.video.dvd.misc,rec.video.dvd.players X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit