I neglected to say in my previous posts. My REAL concern is with the rewrite speeds of CD writers. I have an old 2x2x6 writer. It's working perfectly, as long as I use what old disks I have left. Rewriteable CDs that are marked "4x-12x" or something such is common these days, and guess what, this drive won't write them. In fact, most CDRW drives that are marked with 4x rewrite won't write them (I suppose that's because most of them write slightly slower). The 1x/2x/4x variety is still available, but they cost twice what the others cost. 24x rewrite is already common on the new IDE drives, but still 12x seems to be the limit for SCSI drives. I don't want to spend big bucks on a really nice drive, only to find that over 3 or so years, I can't find disks that will work in it. Hans == Book all your travel arrangements online from a selection of partners on Ananzi Travel. http://www.ananzi.co.za/cgi-bin/goto.pl?Travel