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Re: CDR software



  Hi,

On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Eli Marmor wrote:

> ...I think that instead of looking for a primitive CD-R software for
> UNIX, it may be simpler to get one of the professional and popular
> packages for Windows.  

This is getting semi-off-topic, but what the heck.

>From my experience burning CDs under Doze95, the procedure is far from
perfect, unless you have a REAL fast machine with seperate SCSI
controllers, really huge buffers, etc, and that machine can be _deticated_
to writing. The PC we use for CDRing here has a "DON'T TOUCH" sign on it
throughout the process, you can so much as move the mouse, trigger some
swapping and WHAM, buffer underruns.

I was over at SGI Israel a while ago (hi if you're reading), they have a
mere Indy for CDRing. The guy who does the CDRing said "Oh yeah, the indy
gets unusable while writing a CD", but what he meant is "You can't go
recompiling GCC while playing DOOM and rendering Babylon 5 Images" whilte
writing a CD; you can still read mail and use 'basic' system functions. 
I believe they used a CD-Writing package called Gear, which is available
for Doze/Unix, and is considered one of the best (or was last I checked). 

However, the advantages a full-fledged UNIX Workstation has (really great
bus, etc) probably don't apply to Linux on a PC.

My point was, there's good software for Unix (: CDRing isn't really
something I do a lot of.

			Bye,

				-Yaron.