On 25 Oct 99, at 6:06, Capt. Zyla wrote:

> 1) Will it work satisfactory on a pentium 90? The box in the store
> says a 133Mhz is the minimum requirements. Or will it be
> problematic making cd copies at the slower clock speed?

  A significant issue when writing CD-Rs is that the system must
supply data to the drive as fast as it is being written to the CD.
If the system falls behind, the CD will be ruined.  [With CD-RW you
might be able to try again....]
  This is why some people have been reluctant to trust IDE for this
job; it's too dependent on how busy the CPU is.  4x recording is
probably not an issue with a 300 or 400 MHz system, but with a P90 I
think I'd be looking to SCSI instead.

David G

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