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Hello Roy - 

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

RJT> Are these both ATA devices? 

Please excuse my ignorance but ATA _is_ the same as IDE isn't
it? If so, yes they are ATA. 

RJT> If so, are they connected to seperate cables? 

Good point. To be honest I've never checked but I will. :-) 

RJT> It may be the hard drive, or it might be some other aspect
RJT> of the system. 

I had 3 files of 640+meg to burn to CD and had to convert them
to ISO files then defrag the hard drive (4 times) before I
could get a successful CD burned. That this helped at all tells
me the hard drive is too slow or the burner is wearing out. The
burner has never been perfect and has made it's share of
coasters but now it's every other use the copy fails. 

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