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I have this drive its excellent!!!

My dvd drive plays cd-r but not cdrw because you have to have software like
direct cd or something??

C-ya

David

Iridomyrmex humilis <a...@accuser37.apu.edu> wrote in message
news:7v37aq$irc$3@oak.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> 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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