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Hello Mark - 

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

ML> it is possible... does that HD do DMA transfers? is windows
ML> configured for DMA ON for that drive? also check the CD for
ML> the same... 

It's been awhile since I looked at that. I see the hard drive
listed as ultra DMA mode but the burner is at PIO mode with
"DMA if available". Theoretically it would seem the hard drive
should provide _more_ than enough throughput for the burner? 

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