Hello, Roy.  I heard you talking with Tom Walker about - -

 RJT> Actually,  the stores around here were out of that particular drive.
 RJT> And after getting some runaround from one store (I ain't done with
 RJT> _that_ idiot yet!) this other store gave me a
"substitute" at a similar
 RJT> price.  It's a Cen-Dyne brand,  and their literature says that they
 RJT> have a year's warranty on it. We'll see how it goes...

The one I got a few weeks ago, I first asked the young fellow working on
the floor, and all he told me was that they had sold out.  Then, I went
over to the customer service desk and started asking, and BIR I was
talking to the mgr on duty, and right away she offered me a substitute.
That was the one I got really lucky on, and they sold it to me for 19.99
straight up, with no rebate submittal required.

I'm glad I saw your msg and that reminded me, so I went to the local
OfficeMax today, and of course the shelf on the sales floor was out of
the Polaroid brand drives. So I just walked over to the service counter
again, and asked if they were out.  Right away, the young lady there
called to a stockperson, who went to the 'storeroom' and brought out a
CenDyne 48x12x48 drive.  It would have cost $10 more than the Polaroid
one, but they just adjusted the price to $50, so that after its $30
rebate, it will cost $20 just like the Polaroid would have.  Hee.

It is probably the same one that you got - - Cendyne Model 4816P,
48x12x48. I see that its "System Requirements" include the following,

1.  Win 89SE, ME - - - etc., or NT4.0 Service Pack 4
2.  PII 400 MMX or higher
3.  UDMA/DMA support on mainboard
4.  32MB RAM (64MB or more recommended)
5.  HDD with access time of 15ms or less
6.  75MB free disk space (for recording software)
7.  Available E-IDE port with UDMA support

I'd expect that the CDROM part would work OK with DOS driver
Oakcdrom.sys as comes with Windows 95b, 98, etc., but you may have some
problems with the CD/RW part and the software as you try to use it on
your hardware there.

I dunno why they call for UDMA support - - since 48 x 0.15 is 7.2MB/s I
don't see why even UDMA33 support would be required.

You'll probably be trying to get the drive to work before I get to the
project where I want to use this one.  I'll probably be installing under
Win98SE, so our installation paths will likely diverge in any event.

So please post here as you make progress with it. - - I'll be interested
in hearing about how you do with that.

- - -  JimH.


... Bother, said Pooh, as Windows wouldn't install his software.
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