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Hello Paul - 

PW>>> If I tried a 4x burn (max speed) roxio would blow up, and
PW>>> the only way was to run at 2x. :< 

CA>> I use Roxio at 4x all of the time with no problems.
CA>> Perhaps it was the machine/softw combination that was the
CA>> problem or an older vers of Roxio? 

PW> Considering I had to apply some 5meg(compressed) of patches
PW> and updates just to get the software to even recognize the
PW> drive it was shipped with and under the os it specified..
PW> The docs claim it to be able to do what *I* wanted done but
PW> in practice the adaptec/roxio ecdc/dcd is a waste of space. 

Not on all hardware. On an HP 800mhz W98SE install it works
every time no problems. 

PW> The cdrecord programs I've still not been able to do what I
PW> need w/ cd-rw blanks but otoh full speed cd-r burns haven't
PW> been a bust. (i need to be able to read files from a cd-rw
PW> disk in dos only and os/2 systems w/o a udf/packet driver) 

Your 'needs' are a bit unusual. Any time you're dealing with
recently developed technology you want a recent OS to go with
it if at all possible. 

PW> The system is a PII/300 laptop w/ 160meg ram and the drive
PW> originally used a usb or pcmcia card interface, but since
PW> it's a `laptop' sized drive I converted the fixed 24x cd
PW> bay into a swappable drive bay so the burner is now master
PW> (and only) drive on the secondary ide bus. 

Not very knowledgeable here about all this swapping around of
hardware and software but I seem to recall that burners can be
sensitive to where they are in relation to the master hard
drive. Burning CDs is time-critical and any interruptions or
pauses will create coasters. CD burning is not fault-tolerant,
generally, but I see now many are increasing the installed
buffers in the CD burner itself to ease this 'pain'. :-) 

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