David;
there is some info on actual CDR manufacturers here:
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq05.html#S5-1
Many companies just re-label another manufacturer's drive
I have a TDK Velo 12x cdrw that is actually a re-badged plextor.
Some of the Iomega drives in the past were also made by plextor
and could even be flashed with plextor firmware.
you could identify your drive for sure by the FCC id number on the drive
Type the drives fcc number into this search engine:
http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/ead
Don't worry too much about how windows identifies the drive
some of my cds and cdrs show up as "generic" ATAPI  drives also.

<>< Larry Fisk
         Fisk Computers
           Fruitvale, Idaho
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Dagley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 10:06 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Identifying CD Burner


> I have just purchased a new CD Burner, installed under Win2K, and all
works fine.
> I thought I'd purchased an ACER burner but the device just shows up as
'ATAPI' and
> in SYSTEM/DEVICE MANAGER/CDROM properties it shows as 'ATAPI CD R-RW
20X10'.
> Although there are labels on the actual device there doesn't seem to ba a
manufacturers
> name. As I really like to know my hardware can anyone help to identify
this CD burner?

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