This "100x" drive is nothing more than a standard CDROM drive with software that
uses part of your hard disk for caching. I would suspect the caching software
more than the drive.

No free lunch here.

Dan Chapman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have seen all kinds of read errors with the faster CD-ROM drives, but
> never any HDD problems caused by vibration. This, of course, doesn't mean
> that it can't happen. Have your dealer replace the CD-ROM with something
> more standard (read: slower), like a 8x drive (can you even buy these
> anymore?).
> >To Mike and others:
> >
> >My 2 cents.  I just picked up a computer for my daughter.   Cyrix Pr200
> with
> >a
> >2.1 GHd and a Smart 100x CDROM.  When I started to load some software using
> >the
> >CD Rom (Corel WPerfect) I started getting numerous crashes and blue screen
> >errors "cannot write to Drive C".  When I recovered from that, I found
> using
> >Explorer that the directory was trashed.  There were folder/file names that


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