Michael Wosnick wrote:
> 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)
>
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> Any folks out there have direct experiences (good or bad) with any of
> these drives and wish to share suggestions/advice?
I have recently installed a Ricoh MP7060a in my system and am very pleased.
I have a P233 w/64Mb and routinely burn at 6x while downloading over the
Internet. At that speed I cannot do much else, but if I burn at 4x or 2x I
can do more. I usually use EZCD4 but sometimes go with Nero, CDRWin, or
WinOnCD (which came with the burner.) I usually just create a directory
structure on the HD and then burn it to the CD. If I am copying a CD, I
usually create an ISO image on the HD with WinImage or EZCD then copy that
back to the burner. I have not had very good luck burning from my CD reader
(Mitsumi FX3400S!B) directly to the CDR.
In researching the various CDRs, I found that the Ricoh was one of a
minority that supported overburning, which can be useful in the copying of
some CDs.
Some useful links I discovered are:
http://www.cdrom-prod.com/software.htmlhttp://www.johny.sk/cdrinfo/http://resource.simplenet.com/http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/http://www.emediapro.net/EM1999/starrett7.htmlhttp://home.earthlink.net/~mzupanek/cdrlinks.htm
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Tom McHugh
Big Rapids, MI
USA
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