Hey, >>>>>cdrecord: fifo had 11671 puts and 11608 gets. >>>>>cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11400 times full, min fill was >>>>>85%.
>>Well, as long as the FIFO doesn't go empty I don't think you need to >>worry about anything. The CD-RW has a buffer of its own, so I assume >>if FIFO runs out of data there still is at least 2 megs of >>drive-internal buffer to be written and FIFO can get filled meanwhile. >>Anyways, you can always increase the FIFO using a switch, don't >>remember which one, though. (fifo=16 maybe?) > This seems to be correct. I never seem to get buffer underuns so > obviously cdrecord is being causious in some way, Cdrecord probably doesn't do anything special to prevent buffer underruns. I guess it's just your drive working fine / as expected. > Yes my writer, Mitsumi in this case has 2mb of buffer, can anyone > tell me the logic of the fact that my older writers which could not > exceed 4x write spped all had 4mb of buffer built in to them, yet > this 24x write speed Minsumi seems only to need 2Mb of buffer, the > logic of the setup escapes me. Obvious it doesn't need it, but why ? The guys at Mitsumi probably assume that you won't use their burner on a 486 with a PIO 3 disk... However I guess you're right, more wouldn't be worse. Apart from that I have 4 megs on my 8x Plextor. -- Greets Roman > John Roman
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