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Hello Wayne - 

->> I finally got fed up with the burner I have now and went
->> out and bought one of those 'double layer' DVD RW burners
->> that also does CDRs and CDRWs. 

->> Won't work here. Either it's my BIOS (Award) or my boot
->> manager but something gives me a "DMI pooling data" message
->> and the boot process stops before ever accessing the
->> bootmanager's files on the hard drive. :-\ 

WC> I've the same reservations about trying one here. Even the
WC> Belkins BIOS'ed I/O card I'm contemplating purchasing only
WC> mentions CD-ROMs and burners but no DVD burners. 

When I returned the DVD burner the man at the counter told me
he had bought one too and had to return it as incompatible with
his system. :-\ 

WC> I've seen the DMI error myself some time ago when
WC> attempting to use a freeware DOS C compiler and a DOS MPEG
WC> player. SimTel had a program that fixed that but I've no
WC> recollection what it's called. 

->> Tried several combinations as master, as slave, etc. Only
->> the DVD burner and hard drive - and a few other
->> combinations. 

WC> I think you may have overtaken your legacy hardware :-( 

Yes, I suspected it was a bit much but thought it would be cute
if I could make it work. 

I took back the DVD burner and picked up a rather fast 52x32x52
CDRW burner instead. I can now burn a full 650meg CD in 4 1/2
minutes. :-) 

Had some trouble with installing the version of NERO that was
bundled with the drive. I had HP RecordNow and HP DLA
installed. NERO refused to install InCD until I uninstalled
DLA. No problem for me but I somehow 'lost' the ".msi" file for
the uninstall and wound up having to hand edit the registry
(over 200 instances) to remove DLA and RecordNow. :-\ 

Nice burner though. I like the under 5 minutes burn time a LOT! 

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