Hi Jerry,
   Have you tried different dics media, especially brands
that indicate a speed rating ? I have an internal IDE
Ricoh 4x/4x/20x which fills a 650MB Kodak CD-R in
18 min. flat to share with others, but I do not touch the
computer during the process and powersave disabled.
Anyway just my input because I know how miserable
 it is to burn at 1x.

Hi Michael,
   I personally think the HP's are better built than the
Ricoh's based on internal components, but my Ricoh
CD-RW has worked flawless. Like Jerry I've experienced
some speed issues with my older HP CD-R; which was
later corrected by using better media and freeing some hard
drive space.

1 vote for Ricoh -yui shin


----- Original Message -----
Jerry Rasmussen wrote:
(snip)

> Michael,
> I have a Ricoh MediaMaster external MP-6200S CD-RW drive (SCSI).  I have
used this drive on two PCs and have never been able to make a CD-R disk at a
speed greater than 1x.
(snip)
> You may produce a disk that can be successfully read on the CD-R drive,
but not on anything else.  This just a warning that you, like so many of the
rest of us, may not get the performance that you expect.
> It takes about 75 minutes to produce one CD-R disk at 1x, and you have to
remove ALL programs from memory (check the system tray) and not do anything
else with the PC while writing.
(snip)

> =========================================
>
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Michael Wosnick
>
> I am contemplating the purchase of one of 3 the following (IDE)  CD-R
> drives:
>
> HP 8200i (4x/4x/24x)
> Iomega ZipCD (4x/4x/24x)
> Ricoh MP7060a (6x/4x/24x)
>
> Any folks out there have direct experiences (good or bad) with any of
> these drives and wish to share suggestions/advice?
>

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