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Re: CDR software
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Yaron wrote:
> This is getting semi-off-topic, but what the heck.
yeah, what the heck, I'll throw in some of mine...
> From my experience burning CDs under Doze95, the procedure is far from
> perfect, unless you have a REAL fast machine with seperate SCSI
nope, a 486DX2 can do the trick, you just need to keep feeding the CD-R
constantly. the way to go is try to avoid high-speed (X4) burning unless
you are REALLY in a hurry, keep traffic low, kill all processes on your
machine, expecially screen savers and background jobs (defrag? :-)
> 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.
oh, if you DON'T have 32 megs and up, turn OFF all swapping on win95
before making CDs.
> My point was, there's good software for Unix (: CDRing isn't really
> something I do a lot of.
well, on linux you discover very painfully that no two CD-Rs are totally
compatable, I think out of a few dozen models out there less than 10 are
supported by the native roasters, and none of the main stream ones, AFAIR.
I'd use Gal's advice and make an RR isofs image then burn it with gear or
whatever, highest success chance if you're cheap on medias.
when you buy the CDR drive, make sure it has at LEAST 1 meg onboard
buffers, some still sell with 512k only, chance of "buffer underrun"
bloopers tripples on those!
also, always test before you write, all win95 software does that. it won't
guaranty anything except for making sure all files are retrievable fast
enough and underruns won't occur. I have already burned files directly off
a fileserver on a home LAN (clean and quiet), win95 burner sucking files
off a linux running Samba, and all was fine.
end of off topic for today, I guess...
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