I still have a dual 3 1/2-5 1/4 drive that I've mounted in pretty much
every new computer I've built. How else am I supposed to read the disks
that came with my Windows 3.11 installation.
On 3/23/2011 4:53 PM, John Francis wrote:
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 ...)
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