On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:03, Robert L. Hemus wrote: > My local Windoze guru says you get a better copy from CDRW to hd? and > back to CDRW. Correct or incorrect?
Windoze doesn't have a monopoly on this. That's a *general* observation. The reason is because of the danger of buffer under-run to the written cd. *Anything* that slows that process down is a candidate for bad burns. Thus, you tend to avoid any other operation while cd burning (playing mahjonng eg), and reading from what is after all a SLOW cd ROM on the *same* ide channel is a nasty recipe. Burning from a hard disk isn't the answer, it's an answer, and an improvement over cd -> cd copying *simply* because a hard drive will keep up, a cdrom might not. That said, most cpu hardware is speedy enuff these days, the Linux OS certainly, and again, cd-r's (eg burn devices) come with 'burn proof technology' (whatever that means). The latter more or less ensures that the old homage of storing to hard drive first no longer applies. -- http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
