Paul Williams wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

PW> I'd recommend the CDRecord suite then. I use the Cygwin w32 port on 
PW> the laptop and it beats the adaptec/roxio stuff all to pieces w/ 
PW> the drive I've got.

PW> Not only can you select the write speed to use for the burn but it 
PW> also lets you use the main system memory as an additional buffer 
PW> space to what ever ram the drive may have. In my case the drive is
PW> supposed to have 2meg and no under run protection, in reality it
PW> only has 1.8meg.

PW>  If I tried a 4x burn (max speed) roxio would blow up, and the only
PW> way was to run at 2x. :<

PW>  Using cdrecord I was able to burn at 4x by telling it to use 32meg
PW> of the 160meg in the system as extra buffer space. (34meg buffer w/
PW> 600k write speed going empty?? yeah right!) ];>

I dunno how much ram I can tell it to use,  since there's only 64M in the
machine altogether,  though I guess if I'm not running X it won't be too
bad...  

It's nice that you can tell it to use a slower speed.  That mean that I
don't have to worry what it says on the box,  then?

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