dhill wrote: >7100/80 using 8.6 and toast 5.1 >Man I hate making those cup toasters. It seems I quite often get >this error write message right off the bat. If I save the image to my >desktop and then copy it as data is seems to be more successful. My >choice in speeds are 2X and 1X. I just chose 1X and got that writer >error, so I pulled out the now useless cd, save the image to disk >then dump it as a information and copy. It seems to be doing fine now. > >Any ideas on this? > >Dale > > The CD in the 7100/80 is only 2x, so attempting a 2x copy means that your data stream has to be nearly "flawless" for the duration of the burn, even if you have a fairly large cache, I would think. Also, this is not a fireball machine any more (sorry ... I have one too). My guess is trying to do burns in the background is out, or even having other programs running in the background taking precious CPU time. I also suggest having only the burner hooked to the external SCSI bus when you do this. It's my understanding that slower devices (scanners and Zip Drives) on the chain can slow things down. Also, you might want to turn off VM. Hitting the drive for cache isn't a good thing.
Timing on CD copying can be tricky. My son had a brand new G3/266 with a CD (24X?) that would spin down during a burn, and not get back up to speed until the buffer was gone. They had to replace the drive. Did you have this problem with Toast 4, if you had it? This version didn't allow a lot of other things to happen during a burn. Version 5 may not be a good choice for a machine of this vintage. There's a lot that needs to happen, and you don't want things sucking CPU time unnecessarily. Steve Hardy -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:supermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:supermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:supermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
