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From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject: Re: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 07:46:04 +0100
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Pat wrote:
>First off, I would like to say this: IDE sucks.

I agree when used for CD-R, otherwise you'll get way much more space for
less money.

>IDE is/was supposed
>to be a standard. The problem is that no one follows the standard.
(snip)

I've never had any experience with LS-120 drives so I can't comment on
them. However you mention ZIP-drives and I must say that I've had
experience with them (but only on LPT ports), and iomega really has
problems making drivers so I would guess that is the problem. I've never
had any problems with getting two HDs to work together on the same I/O
cable. I've never done anything more than check which drive is slave and
which is the master (specified on the drives).

>A slow drive can affest a fast
>drive. 

True.

>EIDE was supposed to have fixed all of this, yet it is still here
>in full daylight with the same old problems.

I've actually never checked up EIDE (or IDE-2 if you prefer) but the way
I've got it explained to me it's just a very cheap and easy way to add
another IDE channel.

>I was not even aware that they started
>making IDE CDROM drives.

I really hope you mean CD-R here. Otherwise the question is - "How was the
last ten years in [insert remote place without communications with the
outside world]?" ;-)

>They are slow to begin with. I believe they only have 1mbs
>maximum burn rate anyway. 

Ah, you were refering to CD-R :)
1Mbps = 128K ~ 0.85X
Hmm... so how was that distant remote place the last five years? ;-)
Let me give you an example, the Yamaha CRW 2100 (there are IDE, SCSI and
firewire drives) has the following technical data:
Reading:     40X
Writing:     16X
ReWritables: 10X

>You may also have to check you CMOS setup and make sure everything there
>is correct for each drive. Probably best to set them to auto at frist to
>see if everything works right.

>Can't wait until I get that K6-III+ 450MHz
>CPU in for the S1590 MB and torque it to 600MHz!

I can't wait until I get my Duron 750 instead of this old and slow K6-2 400
;-)
//Bernie