Okay, as per Bruce's suggestion, I purchased a LiteOn 52x CDRW drive
from OWC. It arrived today, I quickly installed the drive and began
testing the unit. First let me say that it is bootable and that is a
big plus. Next, using Discribe 5.0 I converted 20 MP3 songs to AIF
format for burning to a CD. Once this task was completed I decided to
do a test burn to see how fast I could write to the CD. Now I don't for
a moment expect my 266 Mhz G3 with 192 Mb of RAM to burn a CD at the max
speed, so I thought I would give 32x a try first. No go, made it to
track 2 before it errored out. Okay, set it down to 12x this time to
see what would happen. This time it made it to track 3 before it
errrored out. Okay, so I set it down to the lowest setting that
Discribe provides, (4x) and tried once more. Actually made it to track
12 this time before it errored out. Obviously my paultry 192 Mb of RAM
is a problem. What doesn't make sense is that I can burn at 10x on my
PII-233 Mhz PC with only 128 Mb of RAM no problem. Do Mac's require
more RAM to do the same work as a PC?
Just a message from Doug...
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