-=> Quoting Phil Roberts to Rick Mcbroom <=-
 RM>> I began converting my favorite vinyl to CD-R about 4 months ago.
 PR> I've never thought of doing this.
 It's one of the main reasons I bought the CD-R drive.  ;-)
 PR> What kind of sound card are you running?
 OEM Compaq.
 PR> So far, the only audio I've done is to duplicate a Pink Floyd
 PR> CD which refuses to play in my living-room CD player. The CD-R
 PR> copy plays fine.
 Now /that's/ something I hadn't considered. I've got a couple of CDs
 that skip.. maybe I'll try it.
 PR> I have a Memorex CD-RW, which is IDE, and the cheapest of the cheap.
 I considered it.  But I don't think much of the Memorex brand, though that
 opinion's based only on their blank tapes. The OmniWriter was in the ball-
 park on price, too, and seeing as how Philips /invented/ the format, I felt
 more comfortable with it.
 PR> What's the problem with IDE?
 Poor throughput makes them susceptible to buffer under-runs if you write
 at more than 1x. See my post to Cameron for more details.
 PR> The only difficulty I'm having is finding software for it, especially
 PR> something to make this drive an effective hard drive backup.
 Heh. Again, see yesterday's post to Cameron.
 If you're running Win95, Seagate Backup Exec will work. Note that it does
 NOT specifically support CD-R/CD-RW, so you'll have to manually define a
 device profile for it.
 PR> On IDE HARD drives in general: Don't run anything slow if you want to
 PR> use it as a source for a CD-ROM. You may get buffer underruns.
 Exactly!  And the problem with IDE drives, even fast ones, is that while
 they may have very fast average seek times, they are nowhere near as fast
 as a SCSI drive when it comes to SUSTAINED throughput.
 PR> Ultra DMA-33 drives appear to work the best.  I use a Fujitsu, but
 PR> that doesn't mean they're the best.
 I use a Quantum "Bigfoot" drive (again, OEM Compaq). It's rated at <14 ms
 average seek time, and I /do/ get the occasional buffer under-run, though
 only on long tracks (8 minutes and up). Your Fujitsu, if it's of recent
 vintage, is a bit faster (<10 ms), so you probably fare better.
 PR> Also, "Multimedia optimized" hard drives are a good idea.  These
 PR> drives don't do thermal recalibrations, so there's one less thing
 PR> to interrupt a session.
 Hmmm. That's another thing I hadn't considered. Wonder if my Quantum
 is  'Multimedia optimized'.. that may be part of my problem.
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... Mir was running fine until that Yank brought Windows 95 on board.         
 
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