Everytime 'burnproof' or another similar technique has to kick in, it adds a small gap into the burned data-stream, which might cause error- correction slow-downs when reading the CD back in, and occasionally causes the disc to be unuseable (despite there having been no 'uncorrectible write-errors' reported).
I think the situation is worst when both CD-writer & hard disk have no DMA though. This happened on my dad's laptop with hoary because the chip responsible for IDE was not recognized (it was 1 of the first Turions on the market). This resulted in 20, 30, or more 'burnproof' interventions when trying to burn a CD using the default settings, and I had to burn CDs at single or double speed to get anything useable. (Breezy development added the chipset and solved the problem.) So, maybe a suggestion to set a lower writing speed could be added? (Also: what with older cd-writers that don't have buffer underrun protection?) -- Nautilus should warn before burning a CD without DMA-support https://launchpad.net/bugs/46410 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
