"Andrew J. Yon III" wrote:
> On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 09:02 AM, KBragg wrote:
>
> > Toast has worked the best for me using a SCSI Yamaha 4X4X16. No
> > coasters as
> > of yet. I would steer clear of USB burners using a USB adapter
> > card...they
> > seem to be problematic and usually can't produce the CD/R's max burn
> > speeds...most people can get 2X at best from what I have heard and seen
> > from
> > this list. You should be ok if you go SCSI with pretty much any of the
> > known
> > drive makers.
> >
>
> I opened up my external USB Sony Spressa CD-R/RW Drive case after much
> difficulty getting it to work reliably with USB. Inside , I found that
> it contains a Sony CRX120E ATA Drive.
>
> My question is . Can I replace the CD drive in My Gossimer G3 rev. A
> with this unit and get it to burn reliably and which driver would I
> need to get it to work ?
Yes, but you may need a driver set like Intech's CD/DVD speedtools...which you
should own anyway. It rocks.
> Also is it possible to put an ATA hard drive in the case instead of the
> CDRW and use it as an ext. USB HD . Would the Gossimer recognize the
> drive and work with it reliably as a second HD since the Rev. A's do not
> support two ATA HD's ? Has anyone tried this ?
Yes, It's possible, but that all depends on the controller in the External case.
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