Got you, Ping. What does "From what I've read RAID capability can be enough. " mean?
If your motherboard has RAID hardware then drivers get installed and apparently for some chipsets this causes Windows to use SCSI regardless of RAID being used or not.
Saab - these are the first CD's the drive has burned so I can't see a dirty lens being an issue. It would be nice to be able to see the setup of the drive somehow, but I cannot find any tech on it as I said. The drive does not appear to exist on the Samsung site. The CDs are 80 mins but my deck will read them.
CD-RW is a known issue for decks.
I think Saab is meaning cleaning the lens of the CD player as well - they can develop a nice film over the years.
I thought drivespeed was for read speed?
No, it applies to both reading and writing - the slower the burn speed the longer the laser has to make its mark. i.e. the slower the better.