iOn Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Dion Bonner wrote:
> Hey - another burner related question (sorry)...
>
> What class of machine is required to use a CD burner effectively?
>
> I don't really want to shell out ~$250 if I am going to me making piles
> of coasters due to buffer underruns.
>
> My current system is a Cyrix P200 with 32 megabytes of RAM. Is this
> configuration going to cause problems for me? (speed of burning isn't
> much of an issue)
I was quite happily burning at x8 with a 266 MHz machine. I find that disk
access is the bottle-neck, particularly if I am using a mkisofs | cdrecord
pipe.
> Thanks for your patience (I haven't bought any hardware exceeding $200
> in value since I bought the 4 gig disk around two years ago).
Extravagant, more money than sense ;)
Phil.
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