P3D Re: Back from the DDDead - PartII

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>My Philips 2600 works well with CDs that have a blue writing surface.
>With a green surface some CD readers won't read it. I have not tried the
>gold surface. Philips recommended that when some of my customers could
>not use the Maxell green surface disks that I shipped.
>

We have a el cheapo Mitsumi 2x4 CD-R writer in
a Win 95 box (this is an IDE interface). Running on a 133 Mhz
Pentium (I), with the Adaptek Software. It was worked flawlessly,
even making perfect disks from other WIN95 machines directly
from our LAN. I'm most impressed as it's working with TDK 
green surface $1 each 650 MB blanks. I've yet to make a coaster.
I've seen these (internal) for around $250 or so. I've not
found any reader in our labs which can't handle the disks.
I've even found a way to make MAC HFS compatible disks with
it, although it's a bit of a kludge, and only works on a Mac
running system 7.1 or later.

I don't know if we got lucky with this particular unit, or
if they are all this good, but this one is great.

Unsolicited referral from ...

                   Bob Wier
       mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   10:06 PM Wednesday, February 17, 1999
        Unix/Internet Administrator
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
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