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

2002-11-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Levi Waldron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021118 15:44]: > On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > >?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

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

2002-11-18 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > 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 A testimony: I have a K6-2/500MHz 256MB, 32x cdrw w

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

2002-11-18 Thread Levi Waldron
On November 17, 2002 08:22 pm, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > 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 A testimony: I have a K6-2/500MHz 256MB, 32x cdrw w

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

2002-11-18 Thread Glyn Kennington
Alan Shutko wrote: > > I had a PII 350MHz with both CD *and* CDR SCSI... > I had a P60 (yes, original Pentium) with a SCSI 4x CDR... Speaking of such boasts, what's the best anyone's managed on a parallel port (non-SCSI) CD-writer? I managed 4x _once_, and I'd be interested in knowing if it's wor

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

2002-11-18 Thread Alan Shutko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I had a PII 350MHz with both CD *and* CDR SCSI and 192MB of RAM and I > should say that the SCSI controller does the difference. I had a P60 (yes, original Pentium) with a SCSI 4x CDR and it could handle 4x writes without a problem unless I was really hitting the disk

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

2002-11-18 Thread mtsouk
, Mihalis. On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Bill Moseley wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:29:15 -0800 > From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [OT] CD-R Requirements (or Giving Back To Windows Users) > Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 16:29:48 -060

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

2002-11-18 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 04:09:41PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: | That's Phase-II of this project... ;) I think it would be good for him to | see that to burn his CD he can just move files via samba to the Linux | machine and run a single command or shell script. That's easy to do. Another altern

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

2002-11-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
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 n

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

2002-11-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021117 16:11]: > 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 hardwar

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

2002-11-17 Thread Bill Moseley
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 w

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

2002-11-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021117 14:32]: > > This is a rather non-specific question: > > Will CD writing quality be effected if the machine is doing other tasks? Does the CD Burner have any buffer underrun protection? If so, you should produce good burns on even heavily-loaded systems

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

2002-11-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-17 14:29:15 -0800]: > > This is a rather non-specific question: Good, then you won't mind non-specific answers? :-) > Will CD writing quality be effected if the machine is doing other tasks? > Of course the answer is "it depends", but here's what I'm co

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

2002-11-17 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Bill Moseley said: > > This is a rather non-specific question: > > Will CD writing quality be effected if the machine is doing other > tasks? Of course the answer is "it depends", but here's what I'm > considering: It depends (sorry, couldn't help myself) (^: > So

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

2002-11-17 Thread Derek Gladding
On Sunday 17 November 2002 02:29 pm, Bill Moseley wrote: Hi Bill The full answer is "it depends" - chipset behaviour, NIC behaviour, all those sorts of things. A rough back-of-the-envelope answer is: - You can NAT fine through a P75 (or less) with 16MB. - You can burn CDs fine with a P90 with

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

2002-11-17 Thread Bill Moseley
This is a rather non-specific question: Will CD writing quality be effected if the machine is doing other tasks? Of course the answer is "it depends", but here's what I'm considering: A few of my Debian machines are old MS Windows hand-me-downs. I've been offered another (they just bought a new