Another thought ( as "yammies" are usually very good ),  have you looked on
their web site for any drivers you made need to let it live in harmony with
your cdrom ( and windoze!) ?

A friend of mine with a yammie had to do this as far as I can remember.

Graham

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        From:  Michael Rigby-Jones [SMTP:mrjones@nortelnetworks.com]
        Sent:  21 December 1999 08:47
        To:  'Graham North'
        Subject:  RE: [OT] CD Writer Panasonic 7501 burns only Verbatims!


        > ************************ Buying cheap CDR's is a false economy, in
my
        > opinion! ***************************
        >
        Do you mean the disks or the writers?  I borrowed a Yamaha IDE
burner from a
        friend, and although I think it is the biggest pile of crap ever*, I
just
        plugged it in, ran the burner software (Prassi) and it worked fine
on all
        the disks I have tried from unbranded to TDK etc.  That was using 4x
speed
        recording and I have yet to screw up a disk....although I'm sure
it's only a
        matter of time ;o)  The only snag I've found is that if I burn a RW
disk, I
        can't read it on anything other than the CD burner, is that normal?

        Cheers

        Mike Rigby-Jones

        *  It has the flimsiest drawer mechanism I've ever seen, it takes 20
to 30
        seconds to recognise a disk after it's been inserted and it refuses
to
        co-exist with my normal 40x CDROM drive, Windows crashes on startup
        everytime I have them both plugged in.