I recently bought the Yamaha CRW FIE firewire 44 write speed with
>the eight meg cache from OWC in their case. It burns data fine at the 44
>speed but it can't do the Recording of music from disks at that speed
>without extracting files as AIFF and burning them to a firewire disk first
and the back to the Yamaha.
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Mark
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>Mark,
>The likelihood is that your source CD reader is not fast enough to read the
>audio CD at full speed. Typically, audio is more difficult to read than
>data. The only readers that I have used that will RIP audio at full read
>speed are Yamahas. If you are burning at 44X, that reader is going to be
humping to keep the buffer full. And you need a little margin for the reader
>hiccups, so I would expect that 52X, error free, would be minimum. (I would
not rely on the RAM cache. My limited experience is that when the RAM cache
>start sinking to support the write, you are seconds away from a coaster.)
>Concerning the Toast burn speed, that is usually a pull down menu IIRC.
Toast Lite is fairly crippled, so maybe that option does not exist in the
>Lite version.
>The CD text, as someone has already pointed out is the Titles of the
>tracks/songs and CD being readable (at least on a computer) vs the track01,
>track02, etc.
>HTH
Dear HTH,
Just some further notes. I can burn with control to 16x over the
speed from my Plextor 12/4/32 (which I have hooked up to an external cable
from the faster SCSI bus) to the Yamaha 44x24x44 (but not the Matashita) in
Disk at Once with Toast Lite 5.2. I also have the option of using Audio
Master, which I chose, though it is woefully slow. Does anyone have an
experience of whether this does, in fact, make a difference in the quality
of music disks? What does Audio Master do? I visited the Yamaha site but
couldn't find any real information. There is no information included with
the drive from OWC which comes in their proprietary case. What piqued my
curiosity is that my first copies which were of program disk backups like
Disk Warrior went so fast and without a hitch at full speed in Disk at Once
using just the Yamaha (first you put the source disk in, then the program
asks you for the disk to burn on). As HTH points out, the RAM Cache
settings seem to have little effect on the burning.
I was told at OWC that I would have the option of being able to
burn a label with the Yamaha but the software for it was evidently not
included, though Toast Lite does show the option. Now that Yamaha has gone
out of the CDRW business, I wonder how to get hold of it.
I know that the question of Mount Ranier support has been asked and
answered, partially, on this forum before, but no one seems to have
experience of the software which claims to be able to erase and write on a
CDRW. If anyone has Mac experience, does it indeed erase or does it just
blank out the information on the CDRW disk thus filling up space though
invisibly.
Finally, though again I know there are specialized sites for this.
What is the least fragile CDR for backup copies. The spindle from OWC had
disks where you could already see the backing flake. This seems outrageous
in a medium that was first advertised as being perfect for archival work.
Thanks to everyone who replied to me on this, both online and offline.
Mark
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