On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 11:07:51PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:22:54 MDT, Nate Duehr writes: > >The Yamaha at work burns at 8X while copying directly from the other 20X > >CD-ROM on the same IDE chain without running the buffer empty or even > >close to empty. Machine has 64MB RAM and a PIII-450. > > While this is ok, slower machines may run into problems. My trusty P90 > here at home wouldn´t go faster than 1x with an IDE burner, while I can > do 8x without problems now that I invested in an SCSI-burner (a TEAC > CDR-58S). With the added feature that I can now copy CDs from the 2nd > IDE-channel to SCSI while happily ripping&encoding on the first (yes, I > have 2 CD-roms and a burner) and work, all at the same time. > > Just my 2 (euro-) cents, > &rw Worth more than 2, I'd say. Good point. I'm spoiled on nice hardware right now... -- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
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