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Finally made up my damn mind
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Well i say "screw you" to Amazon.com, went to macmall, and picked myself up a Lacie external USB burner. I trust the lacie name and it came with all the goodies. It should be in by tommorrow, so does anyone have any insight on to some quirks of Lacie drives, any precautions. Any info will be greatly appreciated.
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This belongs in the Peripherals forum...
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Unless you are running an iMac that only has USB or an iBook with the same limitation for that matter, I would have suggested that you pony up the money and go with firewire.
I have only heard of bad experiences with USB CDRW drives. Mostly because of the data transfer rate. You will be lucky to write at 4x, more likley you will write at 2x. I've also heard of people constantly cosastering disks with USB drives.
Anyway, I wish you well.
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Best advice I've heard is to connect the drive directly to your mac instead of chaining it through a hub. You want a nice direct feed for optimal data flow. Also best to curse it with a kind voice. They're like dogs; they hear tone of voice, not the words you're saying.
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Help find a cure for Malaria: crunch D2OL for Team Macnn.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 1999
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Thanks i connected it right to my iMac (which does NOT have Firewire) and it burns at 4x perfectly. Took me 5 min to set up and burn my first CD (with Toast Deluxe of course). Great product I'd advise anyone looking for a good USB burner to check out Lacie.
P.S. Soundjam MP Plus and Toast Deluxe are a killer combo.
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[This message has been edited by sek929 (edited 01-11-2001).]
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I have also got a LaCie USB re-writer and it seems to work alright with Toast 4.1.2. I have it connected to the second port on the keyboard as I have a seven port hub on the other mac USB port. Seems to be able to write 500mb plus at full times 4 no probs, my only gripe is that adaptec are sooo sloooow at brining out a version of Direct Cd which will support the drive as a re-writer, I have been using an old hp 7200 as a re-writer for the last 4 years on a pc system so please come on adaptec.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 1999
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Side note, when using the pirated Toast Deluxe today it made some nice coasters for me, it told me the link was unstable, even at 1X, so i used the included Toast software and it burned fine at 4X, is this just a matter of not having the real Toast Deluxe (which is 4.2 the included one is 4.1.2) and the extension it installed on my system is for 4.1.2. Is this the problem, do i simply need to locate a toast deuxe 4.2 system extension?
You have it hooked up to the keyboard eh? I played it safe and just hooked up my hub to the Keyboard.
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