CHARLES ANGELICH wrote in a message to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE:

CA>> Any recent sales on at Best Buy, Office Max, or Office
CA>> Depot where I can snag a CDRW cheap? My machine and hard
CA>> drive are too slow to feed a DVD burner or I'd go that
CA>> route. :-\ 

WC> How slow is too slow? My inquiry concerns my H.P. 433
WC> Celeron I intend to upgrade to a Ultra133 I/O card and
WC> drive. RAM speed limited to PCI 66 revision 1. 

CA> Well if my present CDRW burner is having buffer 'under-runs' even
CA> at 4x I'm assuming my hard drive is not capable of keeping up with
CA> a DVD burner/buffer? 

Are these both ATA devices?  If so,  are they connected to seperate cables?
 It may be the hard drive,  or it might be some other aspect of the system.

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