Folks,
This topic has raised a lot of questions, and even touched on an area where I may be able to contribute (for a change). The question was raised about whether to copy the CD image to hard drive before burning to CDRW. That will work more reliably in some cases, and won't hurt. The usual cause of problems during a burn is when the write buffer gets empty. For some reason CDRW software (on board) can't seem to accommodate this (YMMV according to manufacturer). So, if you are copying from a *fast* CDROM to a slow CDRW, this may never be a problem. If, however, they run at the same speed, or are on the same bus where a data transfer conflict can slow things down, you might be safer to copy to HD and burn from there. This is a *great* reason to insure that you don't have both CDs on the same IDE bus, BTW. I have seen this problem occur on a 16x read and a 4x write, but the processor and bus were the limiting factors. Hope this helps. In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Thomas A. Condon email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Computer Engineer phone: (360) 315-7609 | | Barbershop Bass Singer Sailor and Singer of Chanties | | Left Handed and In My Right Mind | +----------------------------------------------------------+ /"\ \ / X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
