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John Rumm wrote:
On 04/05/2019 13:31, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
John Rumm wrote:
Don't know about ebay, but checking the specs on the drive makers web
site will usually tell you.

FYI the dimensions of an Asus DRW-24D5MT DVD Re-Writer, SATA, 24x are
listed as 146 x 170 x 41 mm - (WxDxH). I usually pay about a tenner
for those. They also rip audio very quickly - typically doing a whole
CD in under 3 mins.

Oops, missed the bit about being IDE...

I have a LG CD/RW model CGE 8527B from c. 2005 you can have if you
want. Its 170mm deep.

Not certain a R/W drive would work with the inbuilt software driver?
I've no idea how old the unit is.

IIUC RW drives look exactly the same from a SW point of view - the
command set for CD read is just a subset of those that also write. I am
happy to lob it your way to try it if you want?

Thanks John. I've got a couple of CD R/W drives I could try to make sure
the system works before putting you to the trouble. ;-)

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