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I *had* two of those. The driver disks had no drivers for Windows, just DOS
drivers. You won't like this, but I gave both drives away for the same
reasons you cite. They just didn't get the job done. I replaced them with
inexpensive Afreey DVD drives and all the problems (inability to copy
directly to CDR, unreliable reading, strange pauses and spin-downs/spin-ups)
went away.

"Lynn Coffelt" <coffelt2@home.com> wrote in message
news:9jf6td$4h2$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> I bought an "OEM" CD5233E (it says on label on the drive itself, no box)
> with no driver disks. On a W2K (service pac 1) machine just being
assembled
> (by gross novice, me), it was detected and windows 2K drivers
automatically
> installed. Works pretty good, but while trying to duplicate some of my
> CDR's, fully loaded with my own MP3's, burned on another machine, I get
> mostly coasters.
> Error message says "source" is too slow. I realize there are a bundle of
> things that can cause this result- media, software, etc.
>
> Are there specific drivers or install routines that could possibly improve
> this drives reading or caching abilities? Creative web sites do not have
> drivers or installers for this drive except the infrared reading version.
> I've read that using that driver helps speed reading (or throughput), but
> introduces other problems, looking for sensors not present.
>
> HELP PLEASE  -  THANKS
> Lynn
>
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