In a message dated 9/1/03 9:37:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >If your philips came from surplus computers, you best send it back. >We bought a case of Philips CDRW's and every one malfunctioned. >Same story, the OS converted to snale speed, and each command took >minutes to function. To test it, shut down. Disconnect all wiring to >CDRW, then power up again. If it is a bad drive, your os will be back >to normal speed. Some schools say to use the "slave" pins in the rear >of the drive, and some say to not use any pins. You can try that next, >once you rule out a bad drive.
I think mine is not one of these thankfully. I was able to successfully burn a couple of CD in OS X and the problem does not happen at all when launching OSX. Also the CDRW doesn't have any problem reading regular CDs. I gave a look at the drive and to my surprise it was not in "slave" position, but "master", don't know what it means but gave it a try and switched it to "slave" the startup slowdown improved considerably from about 20 seconds (right when the Toast extension would show up) to about 2 seconds now (that's about 80% improvement!). So I fixed the problem, but if I had not fixed the problem I was going to contact the seller I got it from. Thanks for your help, Lil -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
