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At 12:15 5/9/97 -0400, John Kim wrote: >Don't try to multitask when it's running, and SCSI is best. Depends on the CD-R unit, the buffer, the software, the rest of your system and how fast yo want to burn. I'm running a 133 mhz Pentium and downloading some news while typing this **while** burning a CD-R from an EIDE drive. The adaptec software lets you do real-time trial runs to test. Nice. I have not had a failure yet. BTW, this is not on a Thinkpad. <g> If I can ever afford a 760 ED or better (and they are coming down ...) I'll let you know. >Also, I don't know if a PCMCIA SCSI port would be up to handling a 4x >CD-R This too is a consideration. But most CD-R units burn at 2x or 1x as well. FWIW, I got a Ricoh MP6200S the other day and like it. $500 w software from NECX. It does CD-RW as well as CD-R which makes it an ideal backup media for me. As well as a nice mass storage media at bargain basement prices. Put one on the home machine and backup over the ethernet link to your hard drive and then burn a disk. Do incremental backups on the CD-RW disks ($25 ea). Dave Speed Please !!! - keep the quoted text and big sigs down to a minimum. Thanks !