Hey, On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Joshua b. Jore wrote: > Okey dokey. The media may be RWed 1000+ times. The hardware (Imation's > anyway) has a MTBF of 30,000 with a 25% use cycle. So doing the math > that's ~312 days of 24/7 operation. Or, actually more since you would > have to stop for eject/inserts ;-) Heh, the 1000+ was the statistic I was looking for, thanks. > So how long does it take you to W a RW media? About 6 minutes I think. It writes RW at x10 and R at x12. Doesn't matter though, it seems ot ALWAYS be able to write to RW, and occasionally dies on regular CDRs. And by occasionally I mean 3 out of 5 times I get a coaster, despite USING A DIFFERENT FRIGGIN DRIVE. And I get the same SCSI errors despite USING AN ATAPI drive. I'd like to say it works under Windows but Windows won't even write to this drive. Well, CDRWin won't, anyway. -Yaron --