on 01/10/09 00:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm planning on adding an internal CDRW drive to my minitower StarMax. Should > I buy a SCSI-2 or IDE drive? Any recommendations on any particular brand or > model? > > I purchased this computer used and the original owner had the power supply > replaced under warranty by a CompUSA service center. Is there a way to tell if > the replacement P/S conforms to the original factory spec of 200 watts? > > I would like to leave the original CD-ROM drive in place and add the CDRW in > one of the other bays. Currently the machine has no PCI cards installed, > however I am going to be adding ethernet. Will the 200 watt P/S be sufficient > to power this configuration? > > It's a good idea to leave your other drive in place, that way you don't care if the new one boots or not. I was going to recommend a Yamaha IDE drive because only older computers like ours can use them, and so they're cheap, but others say there's no back-up software for them. I got one, and plugged it into my ATAPI cable which was available because I have the SCSI CD-ROM. It has burned every brand and size of CD I've tried, no problems. It boots, too. Is your CD-ROM SCSI or ATAPI? If you do go SCSI, you don't need SCSI-2 because the transfer speeds for 8X R-W are only 1.2 Mb/sec. Can you see the rating of the power supply? It should be on it, on a sticker. Anyway, your CDR-W and your Ethernet board aren't going to draw enough wattage to worry about. Take a deep breath and dive in. Lou
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