From: | Robert Cranley |
Date: | 25 Jun 2001 at 03:01:30 |
Subject: | Re: I give in.. the CDRW wins |
Hi Sam,
On 24-Jun-01, you wrote:
> Well ok, I hate to admit it but I am finally giving in - I will make do
> with the CDRW at PIO0 and have to like it. :-/
TBH there isn't that much of an advantage to be gained... A CD-RW drive is
going to be a lot slower than a modern HD or CD-ROM anyway.
> Anyway, It took MakeCD about 13mins (guess) to copy my Linux CD which I
> thought was a bit slow - at the end of the burn it reported a burn speed
> of about 13.6x which going by what I know is actually pretty damn fast.
> So, what I'm after knowing is what sort of settings would improve things
> the best with my drive? (Plextor 16x10x40 Burnproof rewriter) I have the
> 'MAKECD_BURN_PROOF' Tooltype set in the MakeCD icon and have the buffers
> set to default (8000 iirc) and the parrelel read/write unticked.
The tooltype is set properly - But if you look at your drive, you'll see
that it's light isn't flashing orange all the time, sometimes going green. I
get speeds reported up to 10 or 11 X over the internal IDE port, but that's
only in short bursts, teh rest of the time it's compiling data from the
image/filesystem/CD-ROM drive, and the LED on the Plextor turns green. The
average burn speed is more likely to be 7 or 8X, and you'd get buffer
underruns every time the light turned green if it weren't for the BURN
proofing :) Hail Sanyo :)
> 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? :-/
Lots of small files are much slower to read than a single continuous file,
like an ISO Image or a source CD. Try creating an image file first, or
increasing buffers all round.
> 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?
Well, you could use a multi-session disc, but not closing the CD-R when
you've finished recording. If your system partition isn't too big, drag it
into an open Work: Window, and a drawer named the same as your system
partition will be created, containing everything the system partition does.
Then if you back up your Work: partition, your system partition will be
backed up too...
> 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?
Try lowering the priority of the write process with PriMan, ARTM or
something... Executive will help too, and should help even without changing
the default settings. Try it...
> Cheers for any help (and sorry for all the questions!)
No bodder (in his best Oirish accent :) )
Regards,
Rob
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