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Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users)



On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:09:41PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> At 04:33 PM 11/17/02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> >I think Clemens said something to the effect that there is nothing
> >more annoying than the presence of an example.  Your best bet would be
> >to load up this old box (actually pretty nice hardware!) you have and
> >burn a CD while doing "other tasks" and watch the fifo while you are
> >doing that.  As long as the fifo does not drop below a comfortable
> >margin for safety you should be fine.
> 
> How do I watch the fifo?
> 
> The new IDE CD-R has "BurnProof" so I think that will indeed help.

Also use nice to lower nice of cdrecord (higher priority)

 $ nice --9 cdrecord ....

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