Thanks all for the information on IDE/ATAPI drives. Everyone
said the same thing. My cdrom is a SoundBlaster 52x. I think
that SB may have screwed up here though cause the box said 48x
and when I opened it up it was a nice suprise to get a 52x.
Thanks again
>
> Get drives with long warranty periods, if you seem to be
> unable to get
> one, try a SCSI CD-ROM drive (as a big plus, there are drives
> that are
> not 52x but only 32x) with a cheap SCSI card such as Symbios
> Logic,
> Tekram, DawiControl or something. These cards are EUR 30,- and
> up in
> Germany (EUR 50,- for booting cards), the drives around EUR
> 75,- (Teac
> CDR532S) and up. Find out if you have the slots for the SCSI
> adaptor
> and if you want to give it a try. As to my experience, SCSI
> stuff is
> usually smoother, particularly in respect to CPU load.
>
>
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