Post #267,667
9/15/06 2:33:31 PM
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*cough*
[link|http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152058|http://www.newegg.co...m=N82E16827152058]
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Post #267,668
9/15/06 2:39:28 PM
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wow
hadn't realized DVD burners dropped in price that much
linc - if $30's too much, there's a non-DVD burner for [link|http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827131013|$18]
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Post #267,763
9/16/06 5:44:40 PM
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The reviews are split
7 purchasers say it's very good or excellent; 7 say it's average to junk. Also, it's a Sony, and after what they did with music CDs and rootkit software installs, I avoid their products whenever I can.
I'll pass on this one.
lincoln
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Post #267,795
9/16/06 11:41:55 PM
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There are other drives
[link|http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827136059|LG for $17]
[link|http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827101653|BenQ for $18]
I just linked to one of the low price ones.
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Post #267,688
9/15/06 5:18:48 PM
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And that's not an open-box special?
Damn, I just paid more than that for something without a warranty. [sigh]
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Post #267,694
9/15/06 6:25:47 PM
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That's Newegg for ya. :D
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Post #268,307
9/21/06 11:00:34 PM
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Mine *was* Newegg
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Post #267,761
9/16/06 5:34:44 PM
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The "gotcha"
from the manufacturer's web site:
Required OS environment:
Windows(R) 2000
Windows(R) XP Home, Professional(SP2)
PC is Win 98 SE, so this won't work. :-( lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
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Post #267,767
9/16/06 5:59:54 PM
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The hardware shouldn't care.
The writing software probably does care about the Winders version, but the hardware shouldn't. If you have writing software that can talk to the drive under your OS, you should be fine. Check the software support site, or look around [link|http://www.burnworld.com/software/dvdburning/dvdburning.htm|here] for options.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #267,770
9/16/06 6:26:47 PM
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Re: The hardware shouldn't care.
If they are specifying OS for the drive, it may have its own driver. The driver may require OS w2k or newer. If it didn't have a driver, I couldn't see them caring. Sometimes you can get cheap hardware to work on a box by doing some translation or such in a filter driver.
On the other paw, they could have only tested it on w2k and xp so that's all they put on the box. Only one way to find out...
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Post #267,772
9/16/06 7:06:44 PM
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It's generally a support issue.
The software, always 3rd party, probably works with Windows 98. Their support staff probably hasn't been "trained" (doesn't have Q&A scripts) for Windows 98. I don't recall ever seeing an IDE/ATA drive that doesn't use the Windows/motherboard drivers under Windows 98 and later.
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Post #267,973
9/18/06 2:40:04 PM
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Cool Link!
Thanks for pointing me to somewhere new and interesting!
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States.
[link|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net|contact me]
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Post #267,859
9/17/06 7:53:31 PM
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Don't sweat it.
They're talking about the software bundled with it - the hardware is a standard IDE drive that should work all the way back to Windows 95, assuming you can find the software to use on that antiquated piece of crap.
I know for certain that thing works under Linux, and they don't list it...
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