[ale] Cendyne external USB cd-rw

[Jeff Rose]

Yeah, I read that they are out of business, but I went ahead and bought
the drive.  Works fine so far.  I burned a couple o' coasters until I
figured out that you have to set speed=1 with cdrecord.  It still burned
~700 mb in about 10 mins though.  So I'm guessing the speed is relative
to the max of the drive because 1X would have take a LONG time.

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:51, Van L. Loggins wrote:
> I do not have experience with the cendyne usb 2.0 model, but I made the mistake of buying a 48x12x48 cendyne cd-rw drive for one of my friends for their birthday. I had it put away for 4 months before I gave it to him, and I had cut the upc symbol off and mailed it and the receipt along with the rebate form for it from officemax, so we were unable to return it. And I found out a couple of weeks ago that Cendyne is out of business so that means you get no warranty on the drive unless BJ's wholesale is willing to offer you one.
> 
> Your mileage may vary.
> 
> 
> I have a I/O Magic 32x12x40 usb 2.0 cd-rw drive that I have been very happy with, it works great with linux and windows. 
> I think I paid $99 dollars for it but that has been alomst a year ago.
> 
> Good luck with whatever model you decide to buy.
> 
> Van
> 
> 
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 12:17:55 -0500
> ale-request at ale.org wrote:
> 
> > Message: 11
> > Date: 01 Nov 2003 11:48:33 -0500
> > From: Jeff Rose <jojerose at mindspring.com>
> > Subject: [ale] Cendyne external USB cd-rw
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Message-ID: <1067705313.4513.5.camel at localhost.localdomain>
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 	Well after years of faithful service, my HP CD writer appears to be in
> > the throes of death.  It responds for only a couple minutes after boot
> > up then 'disappears' completely.  It seems to lose power and won't even
> > resond to the eject button.  So, BJ's wholesale has a Cendyne external
> > USB 2.0 cd-rw for $29.90.  I hadn't even thought about an external drive
> > as an option but the price is oh so tempting.  Anyone have any
> > experience with these?   
> > 
> > Jeff Rose
> 
> 
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