I don't remember exactly what model this was, maybe a little bit faster than
the one you were talking about, but I ran into trouble when trying to rely
upon a Plextor as the only drive in a system that I set up for a friend.  In
particular, the Plextor would refuse to read (or occasionally be able to
read only after a very long spin up time) either of the two MSI driver CDs
that I had (one for the motherboard and the other for the video card).  I
didn't have any trouble reading these MSI CDs using an older Toshiba DVD in
another computer.  The Plextor handled all the other CDs that I tried just
fine, too; so I wrote it off as the Plextor having some pretty tight
tolerances for what it would work with in the way of CDs.  I assumed that
these MSI driver CDs had been produced as cheaply as possible and were not
up to the Plextor's standards.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 10:37 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Plextor drive problems


Perhaps this is not necessarily a PROBLEM, but only a strange nuisance. I
recently ran into an audio CD that refused to be recognized in my Plextor
12/10/32A CDRW drive.

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