DVD Dual Layer Writer

[SharkAttack]

Need to order this ASAP...

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=129218

But I am wondering if it will run on my girlfriends machine. Problem is I MUST have it by the weekend and I won't see her machine till then so I'm running on guesswork. The machine they have is Windows ME so obviously compatible - The main issue I am having is whether it will be compatible with her motherboard.

Would a new machine around the time of ME likely have a motherboard to support a dvd writer of these specs? (I'm mainly thinking IDE/ATA).

[charlaph]

Almost definitely. I had an old Gigabyte 7VTXE (years old!) that worked with my NEC2500A without any problems whatsoever. IDE/ATA is standardised, so the very worst that will happen is that it'll run slightly slow (I don't think DVD-RW drives max out even ATA66 speeds though, although I may be wrong)

EDIT - forgot to say, I had Me installed on the machine at the time I bought the NEC

[SharkAttack]

Cool sounds promising. Bought!

[wod]

as long as the pc is 500mhz or more and has plenty of ram it should work fine

its just like adding another cdrom or dvdrom drive

[Hohum]

Yeah, all IDE CDROMs/CDRWs/DVDRWs etc use ATA33 speed. Even my old 200mhz Pentium system supports that.