Hi Rick , What's up??
 From the deepest of his mind, Rick Mcbroom dare to say to Javier Colter:
 JC>> And sound recorder.. :))
 RM>  That goes without saying!  ;-)
 Sure.. :)
 JC>> Well, different points of view.. :)
 RM>  If you were using my system, you just might share my POV. 
 I dunno.. :) What CPU do you have?  I just forgot...
 JC>> I hope you don't multitask while recording..
 RM>  No, I know better than that!
 It's very dangerous to multitask while recording/etc...
 JC>> When I record I let the full machine to that application..
 RM>  No way around it. I don't think /any/ consumer system's fast enough
 RM> to multitask while burning an audio CD.  If you had a multi-striped
 RM> RAID system, you MIGHT get away with it...
 That's the only way i guess.. =)
 RM>  One caveat; do /not/ try to use a DOS app running under Windows to
 RM> write data to a CD-R. It may work, and it may not. If you try to
 RM> multitask while doing so, you stand a /very/ good chance of getting
 RM> corrupted data on the CD-R. Stick with a Win32 app, and you'll be
 RM> fine, though.
 I don't use any DOS app anyway.. =)
 JC>> Easy-Cd Pro 2.0
 RM>  Interesting. I will upgrade the HyCD OEM suite eventually, so it's
 RM> good to know that EasyCD will eliminate that step.  However.. it's
 RM> made by Adaptec, right?  I'm not real impressed with DirectCD, or
 RM> Adaptec's support of that product.
 Yep.. it's made by Adaptec... About DirectCD.. I have it but i didn't try
 it yet.
 RM>  DirectCD is the driver suite that allows packet data writing to the
 RM> CD-R, from Windows Explorer, etc.  It works fine now, but caused me no
 RM> end of grief, at first. I was getting a random & intermittent conflict
 RM> with my anti-virus program at bootup, which would hang the system
 RM> maybe 1 time out of 10. I went a few rounds with Adaptec about it, and
 [...]
 Bad.. too bad.. Adaptec is a great brand, i don't get why they have that
 poor support..
 JC>> Now I realize that you were talking about your IDE burner.. :-\
 JC>> I'm using a SCSI one.. :)
 RM>  Well hell, that explains everything. I'm well aware that a SCSI
 RM> system will outperform IDE by a wide margin.
 Sure..
 JC>> about 8-9 ms. I also use a Quantum Fireball SCSI-2 (2.0 gb).. I
 JC>> dunno the access time..
 RM>  And do you use the SCSI Fireball exclusively when you burn CDs?
 No.. It depends the day.. :) I actually use both..
 JC>> ..it seems that the IDE UDMA drive is FASTER than the SCSI-2
 JC>> one..
 RM>  Average access times are extremely misleading, though.  An IDE drive
 RM>  with a 15ms SCSI
 RM> drive in /sustained/throughput/.
 Do you say that my SCSI drive is going faster than the IDE one even if it
 is UDMA?
 JC>> I think your problems comes from the Bigfoot drive.. I been told
 JC>> that those drivers are VERY SLOW to cd-recording..
 RM>  It's a contributing factor, I'm sure. I've considered upgrading to a
 RM>  Fireball IDE drive. However, the Bigfoot fits my needs otherwise, and
 RM>  I'm not convinced that any IDE drive would solve the problem. If I do
 RM>  upgrade, it'll be to an /all/ SCSI system; hard drive, CD-ROM, CD-R,
 RM>  and tape drive. But for now, I'll muddle along with what I have, I
 RM>  reckon. It's working fine.. as long as there's no hurry..  :-/
 And your IDE burner is making you terrible headaches?
 JC>> I didn't realize you were talking about *IDE* burners.. Sorry..
 RM>  's OK. I'm just relieved that you DO have SCSI drives. Otherwise, I'd
 RM>  feel even more like I've been ripped off on that OmniWriter..  
 :))))
 RM>  Thanks for your input!
 See ya..
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