RJT>  I was going to post about the requirements for a cd burner,  and
RJT> this seem be as good a place as any to jump in here...    

RJT>  I've been thinking about getting a burner for some time now.
RJT> So today I stopped by an Office Max store,  since they'd been
RJT> advertising one for ins low prices ($19.95 after rebates).  I
RJT> had to ask the guy for "the cheap on and looked at the box a
RJT> bit, to see what they had for system requirements there.
RJT> Unfortunately, the minimum system required to support the
RJT> drive ( name and numbers I don't happen to recall,
RJT> unfortunately) was a P-II / 35 which is considerably faster
RJT> than anything I happen to have here.

 I installed my (SCSI) Yamaha CDRW with an AMD
200MHz and it worked just fine. I now run an
AMD 350MHz clocked to 375MHz. No problems.

RJT> I'm not sure if that "minimum system requirement" is a
matter of running
RJT> windoze and the software that they give you,  or if it's something else.

 Probably just the software.

RJT> Also,  can you slow these things down?  I know that the big deal
RJT> these day to get the fastest writing speed you can,  etc. but if
RJT> they can be run at slower speeds wouldn't that work for a slower
RJT> machine?

 The software should allow you to select the
speed up to the drives maximum speed. I don't
think the maximum speed of the drive is going
to tax the system. (x 10 = 1.5Mb/sec) I think
it's gonna be the software that needs all
those cycles.

 TTYL.

 Robert

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