Wanting to replace my ancient cdburner (a plextor 12/1032a, tla# 0000) on my even more ancient PII, 350mhz system with a cheap dvd burner.

Many if not all dvd burners give system requirements as 98SE+

Given that I would be installing an internal IDE model (not a usb/firewire model) , would a dvd burner work under 98FE ? I assume like all other normal optical drives , only default windows drivers are needed , plus aspi and an authoring/burning program.

I don't care about the fact I would not be able to burn at full speed, indeed , currently with the cdburner I only use x8, and I would not be installing any bundled programs as I have Nero 6 and have no need to install other programs such as dvd video authoring programs.

So , in essence, I want to install a dvd burner, under win98FE to burn normal data disks and ghost images..

Will a drive that states it requires 98se+ still work, albeit at slow speeds?