Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-13 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Magic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 13 Oct 1999 | If the front laser becomes mis-focused the head assembly moves vertically | keeping the main read head a fixed distance from the CD at all times. The | three laser system also allows slight horizonta

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-13 Thread Magic
Stainless Steel Rat wrote: > If any of the three > lasers in the Sony mechanism become incorrectly focused, the whole thing > fails. If the front laser becomes mis-focused the head assembly moves vertically keeping the main read head a fixed distance from the CD at all times. The three laser sy

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-12 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Geoffrey Goode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 12 Oct 1999 | But not for reading CDs'. For broadcast work you preferably go for | three laser readers as if they are slightly askew, low reflectivity, | etc. they will still read, whereas single lasers

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-12 Thread Geoffrey Goode
In message , Stainless Steel Rat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >* "Sciamano Nerazzurro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 11 Oct 1999 >| Luca >| -> I've had bad experiences with Philips CD-Writers > >You had a faulty individual unit. Philips CD mechani

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive 80 min?

1999-10-11 Thread J. Coon
I just stopped by Best Buy and picked up a ZipCd. They also had some blank CD-R that 80 minute, 700 mb. I hope this unit will work with those babies. I guess they are comming out with the 80 minute MDs so we can record the 80 minute CDs. Anyone know the history of these? -- Jim Coon Not jus

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-11 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * "Sciamano Nerazzurro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 11 Oct 1999 | The problem is that my burner (HP7200i) Say no more. The 7200 series has chronic overheating problems, especially the external units (no fan or not a sufficiently large fan). I bel

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-11 Thread Sciamano Nerazzurro
Stainless Steel Rat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You had a faulty individual unit. Philips CD mechanisms are generally > better than Sony's. They are mechanically simpler -- one laser instead of > the three in Sony mechanisms -- which makes them as a whole that much more > reliable. > > I am g

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-11 Thread Sciamano Nerazzurro
Dave Mabry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There probably isn't a drive made that someone hasn't had problems > with. My experience with this drive and my two friends' experience with > Phillips SCSI drives are good. In general, most drives work pretty well > as long as the computer they are con

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-11 Thread Stainless Steel Rat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * "Sciamano Nerazzurro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 11 Oct 1999 | Luca | -> I've had bad experiences with Philips CD-Writers You had a faulty individual unit. Philips CD mechanisms are generally better than Sony's. They are mechanically simpler -

RE: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-11 Thread Taky Cheung
sage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Magic Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 5:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive "J. Coon" wrote: > DO you have any idea who makes the unit? I suspect someone makes it for > Iomega, and

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-11 Thread Dave Mabry
There probably isn't a drive made that someone hasn't had problems with. My experience with this drive and my two friends' experience with Phillips SCSI drives are good. In general, most drives work pretty well as long as the computer they are connected to is working properly. Most problems th

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-11 Thread Sciamano Nerazzurro
Dave Mabry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to my sources at Iomega, it is made by Phillips. Stay away from it, then. Luca -> I've had bad experiences with Philips CD-Writers - To stop getting this list send a message cont

MD: Iomega CD

1999-10-10 Thread Jim Lytthans
> DO you have any idea who makes the unit? I suspect someone makes it for > Iomega, and will any other software work with it or are you stuck with > the software that came with it? > Believe it or not, it's made in Hungary! I really don't know who makes it for Iomega, but the drive is very q

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-10 Thread Dave Mabry
According to my sources at Iomega, it is made by Phillips. "J. Coon" wrote: > > DO you have any idea who makes the unit? I suspect someone makes it for > Iomega, and will any other software work with it or are you stuck with > the software that came with it? > -- Dave Mabry [EMAIL

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-10 Thread Magic
"J. Coon" wrote: > DO you have any idea who makes the unit? I suspect someone makes it for > Iomega, and will any other software work with it or are you stuck with > the software that came with it? Iomega drives are not rebranded, they are manufactured by Iomega. You can use almost any softw

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-09 Thread Simon Gardner
> DO you have any idea who makes the unit? I suspect someone makes it for > Iomega, and will any other software work with it or are you stuck with > the software that came with it? I don't think it's a rebranded drive, but it's supported in the latest Nero (www.ahead.de), and Adaptec's Easy CD

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-09 Thread J. Coon
DO you have any idea who makes the unit? I suspect someone makes it for Iomega, and will any other software work with it or are you stuck with the software that came with it? Jim Lytthans wrote: > > > Is anyone familiar with the Iomega ZIP CD writer? > > Yes, I just bought one from Fry's in

Re: MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-09 Thread Magic
Jim Lytthans wrote: > No, it's a 4x write, 4x re-write, and 24x read drive. Then the drivers must be badly written. It's running under Win98 on a P2 500Mhz system and there iy takes half an hour to write 650Mb to a CDRW. I use the CD-ROM drive which is a 16speed to install software on the mac

MD: Iomega CD Drive

1999-10-09 Thread Jim Lytthans
> Is anyone familiar with the Iomega ZIP CD writer? Yes, I just bought one from Fry's in Anaheim Hills today (it's perking away formatting a RW disk). The price was $210. Iomega is offering a $30 rebate, good through March 17, 2000. > Yes I do, we have one at work. It's not a bad product, b