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Article #707210Re: 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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Why do you want to share the dma? Neil P. Fallon jOHN dOE <m...@here.com> wrote in message news:7um8kb$nkc$1@news.is.co.za... > Now, do u guys have a DMA option in Device Manager for this drive? > > I flashed my bios to 1R22 and don't know whether i need to have DMA as a > checkbox. > > thanks > jd > > > Neil Fallon wrote in message ... > >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: <OSs9684G$GA.350@cpmsnbbsa05> X-Deja-AN: 538729616 References: <380E61D2.B840A5D2@earthlink.netANT> <utF9YH4G$GA.360@cpmsnbbsa05> <7um8kb$nkc$1@news.is.co.za> 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