After a frustrating weekend trying to get some CD's burned and after having abandoning the idea of keeping the RW10A, I was using a Archos MiniCDRW, which worked great with the stock Nero software, but when using Adaptec's 2.5 it wasn't even recognized. I was going nuts, and in a last ditch effort, went out and got a copy of Adaptec's CD Creator 4.0 (the latest). The Archos folks told me that now it works with it. Well they were wrong, dead wrong. So in complete frustration I opened up the repackaged RW10A I had given up on, loaded the drivers (which appeared to be a no brainer) and low and behold, the drive worked without a hitch, no errors and was immediately recognized by the Adaptec software (unlike the Archos). So I started burning the 120 cd's that I needed for work and it went without a hitch, no coasters, no buffer underruns (my laptop's harrdrive is quite fast which may have helped) and while I do still believe it cranks out too much vibration, I just affixed two foam strips onto the bottom and all is well. It runs fast and happy. So I am now retracting my previous comment about the Archos being better than the Panasonic and am keeping the RW10A. It is indeed very fast, accurate and now that it is damped for vibration, fault free.



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