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Uh oh. That is what stopping me from buying this drive. Umm, anyone care
to comment? :(


In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom Mike Haberfield <mike.ha...@tamesis.com> wrote:
> I have one of these drives, running with a Cinemaster h/w decoder card -
> and the DVD playback is excellent.   The only problem I have with it is
> that it won't read my CDRW discs, and I don't understand why as everybody
> else says it works - maybe I have a duff drive - but I'm reluctant to swap
> it cos everything else works fine.

> Cheers,

> Mike

> Phillip Pi wrote:

>> 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.
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