#Creative Labs?
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I am looking at buying a CD-ROM in the very near future. I already have a
sound blaster pro sound card in my computer, and I am looking to purchase a
creative labs CD-ROM kit so I can use my sound blaster as the interface card.
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sorry about that! The question that I have is about the quality of the
Creative labs cd-rom. Is it a ggod one? Why does the package say it only has
590 MB storage when others I see say they have 680MB? Are these the same? Are
they compatible? Are there low and high density cd-roms or drives? Will all
MPC cd's work in the Creative labs CD-rom or not? Sorry for all the questions.
But this is an item that I wish to use for some mutimedia work as weel as the
kids to use. If you can help me pleas. please do. thank you
I have a SoundBlaster 16asp (and have had the Pro) with their CD-ROM. I have
not had any problems with it using Multimedia. All references to capacity are
basically bogus — all CD-ROMs (drives and discs) have the same capacity! The
advantage of using the one from CL is that it fits, it works, and no other
controller card is necessary. Also, a cable is provided to run audio directly
to your SBPro card as another input. The disadvantages are that it is a bit
more money than other drives with equal or better performance.
Creative is coming out with a newer, faster drive very soon that will do
double-speed transfer, photo-CD, power eject (big woopee), etc. but will be
more expensive. There are now drivers (try the PACVEN forum) for the old
CD-ROM to make it Photo-CD compatible, so if you just wanted Photo-CD (Kodak),
you still don't have to get the new drive.
What it boils down to is that, for a little more money, you get a configuration
that works out of the box, and you don't have to fiddle with, or question when
other problems come up. All in all, a pretty good deal.
Hope this helps.