On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:17:34 -0000, "Informer"
wrote:


"Arny Krueger" wrote

How does it feel to be the modern equivalent of the villiage idiot?
Literally millions of people burn CDs on their computer without
encountering
this kind of problem. Some of these people are literally kids.

Not too good at the moment

Question, If using a CD burner gives an identical copy then why am I given a
choice of burn speeds? Is this just dependent on the max speed of the CDR?

You should aim to use the highest speed that the media supports,
without overloading the internal systems on the PC (on most recent
drives, this will be shown by the "burnproof" feature kicking in,
indicating that the PC isn't moving data from the hard disc to the
burner at sufficient speed to keep up with the burn process).

Determining what this is really a matter of experimentation. For
example, I generally burn discs at 16x, on a Dell 500MHz Pentium III
desktop w/ 128Mb memory, even though my burner has a max speed of 48x
and the media I generally use is rated to 40x.

HTH
Julian

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Julian Fowler
julian (at) bellevue-barn (dot) org (dot) uk