On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 02:10:13PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > From: John Francis > > >On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:11:42AM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > >>> I now have my general "browse the internet" computer up and running > >>> so I can once again read the list and type on a real keyboard > >>> instead of using my laptop. > >>> > >>> The CD-RW drive is recognized, but won't read a CD. Don't know how > >>> I'm going to replace it, since all you can find now-a-days is DVD > >>> drives. > >So put in a DVD drive - they can read (and, generally, write) CDs. > > > > The DVD drive ain't broke, so I ain't gotta fix it. I'm trying to > have both the DVD-RW & the CD-RW working in this system.
What's the objection to having two DVD drives? Most systems should be quite happy with that configuration. I must admit I haven't tried this exact setup - my last dual-drive system had one CD-R drive, and one DVD/CD-RW drive; since that machine I've been using mostly notebooks. But AFAIK very few things would care; just about all the software I've seen would be happy with multiple drives of any kind. In any case, I might have an old CD-RW drive lying around; I'll take a look. (If you're interested in keeping old hardware running, I think I've still got a 5 1/4" floppy drive somewhere, a ZIP drive, and whatever the higher- capacity follow-on from Iomega was called. And a SCSI DAT drive ...) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
