On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 11:55:48AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Pigeon (jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk) [030514 21:43]: > > On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:57:33AM -0700, Joris Huizer wrote: > > > --- Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> wrote: > > > > What is the minimum fifo fill reported by cdrecord > > > > when it finishes? > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure, but I think it was extremely low (only a > > > few %) > > > > Not good... > > Really? Is it bad? My impression was that as long as it never hits > zero, you're fine. My understanding was that if the buffer were empty, > on a non-burnproof drive, the drive keeps burning garbage from the empty > buffer and you get a coaster. On a burn-proof drive, the burn pauses > until the buffer gets some more data. On any drive, so long as the fifo > has any data, the drive can keep on burning it. As long as you see > "fifo was 0 times empty", you should be all right. Is my understanding > incorrect? No, you are correct. But in the context of the OP's posts, it indicates that his machine seems to be on the limit of its performance; it appears that he hasn't been noting this figure much, and while it probably didn't drop to zero on this particular run, it may well have done on others. Re burn-proof drives, I think some are not necessarily as burn-proof as all that; I regard it as bad practice to rely on burn-proof-ness for avoiding coasters. But maybe that's just a personal whim. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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