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from: Mike O`Connor
date: 2004-03-03 10:38:48
subject: Re: Bootable CD - application disc

Peter L Allen wrote:

>Thanks Mike,
>	Finally got one on the way - $15 freight to Tassie
>	Couldn't find locally, Cleopatra's consort reckoned only 2 left by the time I 
>	called.
>	I'll do a site visit in July to check them out!
>
>				Regards,
>						allenpl
>
>On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 08:46:10 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>
>>Peter L Allen wrote:
>>
>>>Mike,
>>>    Whos got them,
>>>              Regards,
>>>                        allenpl
>>>
>>>On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 04:33:59 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>I updated my 8x4x32 Acer CD-RW today to an 52x24x52 ASUS
CRW-5224A for 
>>>>AU$67 {~US$50}. This had a 25 page English language section in the 
>>>>usual, nicely produced, ASUS glossy manual - other 25 pages
was in Chinese.
>>>>
>>>>On the Product Introduction under
Specifications|Application discs was 
>>>>the following :
>>>>
>>>>12cm or 8cm diameter, 1.2mm thick
>>>>CD-Audio, CD-ROM, CD-ROM/XA, CD-I,
>>>>Mixed Mode CD-ROM, Photo-CD,
>>>>CD-Extra, Video-CD, CD-Text, DVCD, CD-G,
>>>>Karaoke CD, I-Trax, and lastly *Bootable* CD
>>>>
>>>>So I presume that unlike my 8x4x32 which would *never* boot from the 
>>>>MCP1 installation CD, even using the "pause"
trick, this one will?
>>>>
>>>>OS/2 Warp is included under OS compatibility.
>>>>
>>>>I didn't change a thing on the box it's now installed in,
as I use the 
>>>>lockcdr.flt, it just picked up the ID automagically, and
now burns 6x as 
>>>>fast as its predecessor on supplied 24x CD-RW, and also came with a 
>>>>52x-CD-R, and Nero Express 5.5.10.4!
>>>>
>>>>Also, under Recording form, along with DAO/TAO/SAO/Packet
write/Overburn 
>>>>there is also *DAO-RAW* mode.
>>>>I haven't come across this last term before. Anyone know
just what it 
>>>>is, before I go Googling?
>>>>
>>>>TIA
>>>>

Hi Peter,
Well at least I remembered to mention Tasmania as a possibility for your 
location. :-)
Glad to managed to snaffle one of the last.
Haven't had any responses to my query above - been off-line due TCP/IP 
problem past 48 hours.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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