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Article #707215Re: Toshiba SDM-1212: A good buy?
From: remi
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 00:00
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I have it and it plays all CD CD-R CD-RW ,gold ,silver ,green ,whatever. great drive. David Bratby wrote in message <7v4e89$s7i$1...@nclient11-gui.server.virgin.net>... >I have this drive its excellent!!! > >My dvd drive plays cd-r but not cdrw because you have to have software like >direct cd or something?? > >C-ya > >David > >Iridomyrmex humilis <a...@accuser37.apu.edu> wrote in message >news:7v37aq$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. >> -- >> 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! >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> /\___/\ Ant from The Keep. >> / /\ /\ \ 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: "remi" <remi_b...@nospam.scee.sony.co.uk> Subject: Re: Toshiba SDM-1212: A good buy? Date: 1999/10/29 Message-ID: <7vbps5$5731@camsg001.camb.scee.sony.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 541994910 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: mailgate.scee.sony.co.uk:194.217.18.17 References: <380E61D2.B840A5D2@earthlink.netANT> <38145A7A.5F6EB04A@tamesis.com> <7v37aq$irc$3@oak.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <7v4e89$s7i$1@nclient11-gui.server.virgin.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 X-Complaints-To: ab...@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 941190400 nnrp-07:6134 NO-IDENT mailgate.scee.sony.co.uk:194.217.18.17 Organization: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit