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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5724)	1/30/1999 10:38:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>Plextor 8x Thanks, ZP, very informative. Dampens my childish enthusiasm somewhat, which, at my age, is a healthy thing I think. More watching is in order, especially since my 2x chugs along in the background while I play Battle Commander ... <g> Overburn, yes, it's a royal pain in the gazpacho if you've put 73'48" of music on your 74' CD and the &^%* writer won't close the disk. There's a bit of practical leeway for that even though it's out of spec, I understand, and most writers will do that. My 2x won't reliably -- burned my first coster with the adaptec software tody that way. Disk burned flawlessly but I couldn't close the sucker. Claimed it closed on the second try, there's no second try on a CD-R. It upsets my CDRom drives no end. Kind of funny, actually. I have this ancient 2x Toshiba with carrier that I use mostly for audio. Put the coaster in and 20 seconds later the carrier came flying out like the drive had indigestion. Haw. Drive can't take Johnny Cash ... <gg>. Neither can I past a certain point. Burned perfectly second time around, closed and all, so I fed the Toshiba Folsom Prison Blues for misbehaving ...