Re: Sol 9 ISOs

From: serge (serge_at_the.shed)
Date: 12/27/03

  • Next message: Lon Stowell: "Re: Sol 9 ISOs" 
    Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:22:51 -0500

    In article <GO%Gb.141741$8y1.422044@attbi_s52>,
    LonDot.Stowell@ComcastPeriod.Net says...
    > Roughly 12/26/03 05:53, serg's monkeys randomly typed:
    >
    > > In article <V0PGb.461594$Dw6.1374391@attbi_s02>, manwe-
    > > sulimo@comcast.net says...
    > >>
    > >> "arvidjaar" <cku192@yahoo.com> wrote in message
    > >> news:bsept4$4vq$1@news.mch.sbs.de...
    > >> >
    > >> > "serg" <serg@the.plaza> wrote in message
    > >> > news:MPG.1a53af7ffe06c5a398a88d@news.alt.net...
    > >> >
    > >> > > But honestly, I don't see why the burn speed matters. A disk burned at
    > >> > > 1X should be exactly the same as a disk burned at 40X. It makes no
    > >> > > sense that there would be a different result.
    > >> >
    > >> > it does matter. Not to mention that to burn at high speed you need
    > >> different
    > >> > physical coating on CD so this alone may prevent older drives from
    > >> properly
    > >> > reading them.
    > >> >
    > >> > I never burn anything faster than 4x. Just to be on safe side :)
    > >> >
    > >> > =arvi=
    > >> >
    > >> I have never seen any burner go that high. I think you mean the read speed
    > >> is 40X, and the write speed is 4x, 8x, or something like that.
    > >
    > > The s/w is telling me that it's writing at 40X but it could just mean
    > > that it's using the fastest speed possible (but that could be slower
    > > than 40X). Who knows. This is a goddamn Windows program, so who the
    > > hell knows what's going on. It's not like I can truss a process or edit
    > > a config file somewhere to find out what the retarded program is doing
    > > under the hood. But anyway, I can't force the software to use a slower
    > > speed.
    >
    > ? What program is that? that won't allow you to override the
    > properties of the drive to burn slower?

    The drive is a NEC NR-9100A CDRW and I'm using Roxio Easy CD Creator 5
    on a WinXP Pro box. The only write-speed option I get is "40X" and I
    haven't found an option for specifying a slower speed. If you're
    familiar with that drive and/or software and have any tips, then I'm all
    ears.

    > Some program and drive combinations do this automatically, e.g.
    > a Plextor which refuses to burn faster than 16X for audio CD's
    > since it is difficult to create a good one at speeds much faster
    > than that.
    >
    > As for actually burning at 40X, perhaps the CD is reaching that
    > rpm at some point in the burn, but dubious when you consider the
    > rpm needed to do so.

    It takes about 3 minutes to write 600MB to a new CD. That works out to
    roughly 3MB/sec. At 40X, the transfer rate should be a lot higher than
    that.

    But anyway, I need to slow this thing down to (say) 1X so I can burn
    some Sol 9 CDs that the ol' Blade 100 can actually use without panicking
    or hanging.

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