Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:

>Another datapoint.  I am just starting my CD-R adventure with an internal
>Toshiba SDR2102 drive on my TP 600X.   I calibrated by running the OEM
>Windows and installed NTI CD Maker Gold (purchased at a flea market for
>US$1.00).   It is idiotproof which in my case was necessary.
>
>This s/w has a test facility in which it verifies availability of all
>files, does a test of your hard drive read speed and your cache, and
>tests the capacity of the target CD blank.   Only if all tests pass does
>it burn.   In my case I burned two CDs (first in my life) and had a
>100% success rate (i.e. readable on another machine).
>
>I have not tried RSJ yet because I wanted to experiment with systems 
>easily comparable with others' experience.   This worked, and I'd say
>you should look to see if your OS/2 s/w has a comparable function.  If
>so use it.
>  
>

Hi Jeffrey,

When I purchased my first CD-burner, an Acer 8x4x32 speed, I test burnt 
a CD using the supplied Adaptec [now Roxio] software to verify the 
hardware and media and that was when I found out the limitations of the 
Direct-CD software and packet-writing in Windows.

I then bought RSJ for OS/2 and have used nothing else since.  To my mind 
it's idiotproof, virtually a no-brainer once you have an ATAPI drive at 
least, and let the RSJ software discover it automagically using lockcdr.flt

RSJ also has a test-mode, but I only ever used it once, to see what it 
did.  I only ever [first day or so of usage] had one failed attempt, 
that was with a CD-R, that I didn't get to finalise, due to a power 
outage prior to completion, so that in addition to the 300MB that is 
readable, there was about another 300MB written to but inaccessible on 
that disc.

The remainder of the test facility you mention are all part and parcel 
of RSJ's regular procedures,  I leave my writing parameters set to 
maximum speed for normal data-CD-use, Audio is burned at a slower rate.

I'm very happy with RSJ, and can burn to that OS/2-eCS mounted drive 
from a LAN-attached W98 Laptop or a  W2KPro drive on another system. 
Have also burned CD-size digital videos transferred over TCP/IP from my 
daughter's Mac i-Book

No problem burning ISO images - DFSee Bootable-CD etc, cloning CDs.

RSJ lets you treat a writeable CD just like a regular, albeit slower 
HDU, though the 52x seems pretty fast to me, so you can use a good 
complement of command-line executables with it as well as full WPS 
drag'n'drop facilities.

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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