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In article <39E189DE.AA291024@yebo.co.za>, Jake  <nospam@yebo.co.za> wrote:
>Hi , I'm looking to buy my first CD-RW , or combi DVD-CD-RW .I'd
>appreciate your opinion on what is a good buy , in terms of flexibility
>, reliability and capability (e.g., DAO RAW-writing). 
>
>I'd like to get something great like a Plextor , unfortunately I'm on a
>tight budget , can't really buy much more than at the low end of the market. 

Since you're not overly hot for the latest greatest fastest, a Plextor
might not be out of reach. The IDE 8x/4x/32x drive isn't too expensive now
that they've got a faster model out, and (at least in my experience) RAW-
writing (specifically using CloneCD) works just fine.

I don't know if you were planning to buy online or not, but I think you
could get one for $129 (plus shipping) if you went through buy.com using
a $30-off coupon (available through www.dealcatcher.com). I don't know
anything about the Acer you mentioned, though.

>PIONEER DVD 103 -- I have a 400 celeron system , with 8-gig drive E-IDE
>dma-33 bus .Does anyone work with such a combination , and would it make
>perfect copies when read from the PIONEER  to a CD-writer (e.g. ,copy
>cd-text and cd-audio track description data -- like the name of a song)? 

My system's probably slower (AMD K6-III 400; dma-66 HD but no dma-66
controller) and has what I assume to be an inferior DVD-ROM (old Creative
2x) and I've had no problems. Note that the track descriptors aren't
written to the CD as text files; rather, programs with access to an online
database (CDDB) can identify audio tracks. FWIW, tracks copied on my
system are correctly identified.

Until someone more knowledgeable corrects me, hope this helped....


-- 
Pete Rauske                 
raus@midway.uchicago.edu