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From:Alan Buxey
Date:25 Jun 2001 at 10:42:57
Subject:Re: I give in.. the CDRW wins

hi,

> 'MAKECD_BURN_PROOF' Tooltype set in the MakeCD icon and have the buffers
> set to default (8000 iirc) and the parrelel read/write unticked.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> It seemed to take even longer for the drive to burn a copy of my Work
> partiton though and this is only 78megs full - anyone got any ideas why it
> takes longer to burn that much rather than over 650 megs? :-/

you've already answered yourself ;-)

> since I am using the demo version of MakeCD I am not sure what I can do.
> since I have only used 78megs on my Work backup I have some space left on
> the disk and obviously I would like to use this up (back my system partiton
> up if possible) how can I do this and access the info on CD afterwards?

if you made the disk multisession you can write a new track. if you didnt,
then tha other 580Mb ont he CD is dead space

> And Finally,
> Burning a CD likes to lock the system up. Someone said to use Executive to
> give the processor more free time from the burning process. How do I go
> about setting this?

umm, just run executive...it'll shift the 'multitasking' itself.

alan

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