On 15 Jul 99, at 1:38, Westly Montroos wrote:

> I have a CD rewritable drive, and it is a Sony, with 4x speed. It writes
> very well, and the CD runs fine on my computer, an IBM P3  450 MHz, 96 Mb
> ram, with a CD-ROM of 24x speed. But when I take my CD to work, on a IBM AMD
> K6 2 266 MHz, 32 MBA ram, with a 32x speed CD-ROM, it takes a lot of time to
> copy or to install anything from this CD. The computer becomes very very
> slow.
> What could be the problem?

  The most obvious factor that could be slowing down your work machine is
that it only has 32MB of RAM.  Depepnding on your application mix, that might
not be enough.

  Under the "System" control panel, there are some performance settings, one
of which configures cache allocation for the CD-ROM drive.  Make sure that's
set to its maximum.  [While you're there, make sure nothing (and especially
your CD-ROM drive) is running in DOS Compatibility mode....]

  If these things check out, then please describe that work machine in more
detail -- hardware, peripherals, OS, usual applications, and any conflicts
indicated in Device Manager.


David G

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