From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:31 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1643 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Monday 14 April 2008 Number 1643 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 CD writing speeds ? : Voytek Eymont" 2 Re: Burning DVDs - problems; repeat send : John Angelico" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:02:21 +1000 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: CD writing speeds ? following on the recent thread: I;m using RSJ in the distant past, I used to burn CDs with Thinkpad 750 laptop with SCSI PC card and SCSI Yamaha external burner, it's just never failed; in the last year or two, I've replaced the SCSI drive with a brand new IDE 52x; it's not that I often copy CDs, but, I can hardly get a CD copied without a failure now the CDRW (and CD) are both mounted vertically (well, the PC is on the side); the vertical position certainly seems to affect operation, it doesn't seem it likes to be vertical yesterday, I pulled the PC and placed it horizontal, and, tried to burn some CDs, I was copying an audio PC; it failed at mx speed; using RSJ CopyWizard, it took about 14min 8x 15min 10x 15min 12x (I think it was 18 min at 16x) (I wasn't watching that precisely, so, my time might be +/- 1 min) CD has 24 songs, 557772b, 53minutes the most annoying issue is that in won't work properly in vertical orientation... I might need to relocate the PC... -- Voytek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:36:53 +1000 (AEST) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Re: Burning DVDs - problems; repeat send On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:33:32 +1000, Mike O'Connor wrote: >Hi John, > >It's a funny thing BUT - here using RSJ for my burning, I not >infrequently have coasters on CD-R, but virtually never with the >slower-burning CD-RW/DVD-RW (using Verbatim/TDK media for DVD). I know >they're slower, but you can reuse them 1,000 times or more. > >I always burn my eCS/Ubuntu/Linspire/Xandros etc. ISOs to CD-RW not >CD-R, and haven't had a failure yet! Hi Mike, and all who have responded. We certainly didn't factor in a 40% failure rate when we evaluated the economics of going to DVD. Mike we haven't tried -RW because we use up most of the capacity, and couldn't see the value in them. However, it's worth a try. Christian Regards, John & Marjo Angelico Kingsley Educational Pty Ltd Phone +613 9544 8792 P O Box 310 Fax +613 9544 2328 Mount Waverley talldad at kepl dot com dot au VIC 3149 AUSTRALIA www.kepl dot com dot au ABN 77 007 423 734 ____________________________________________________________________________ | We will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord | | His power and the wonders He has done Ps 78:4 | ------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------