ANdrew wrote:
Shoot me down as ignorant, but I've heard that you need a fairly
non-standard hard disk as your source storage. My understanding is that
you
need to burn the entire CD in a single hit. Conventional disk drives will
pause every now and again to do a thermal calibration check which will
screw
up your contiguous dump to the CD. So, you either need a disk that does
calibration incrementally, or a good amount of RAM as a buffer.
But, I could be wrong!
Nate writes:
You're pretty much right. Basically you need a hard drive that has a
certain sustained transfer rate, as well a good cache/buffer. Hard drives
where the thermal calibration can be turned off and have a speedy
sustained transfer rate are usually advertised as "AV" (audio/video)
drives and are not uncommon at all. There's a whole slew of that type of
gear for those people that burn CD's for music or digital video to hard
disk etc. We have 2 CD burner's at work and I burn about 10 CD's of
computer data a week. Everyone I worked (normal non/IDM types) with
thought it was real cool when I burned an audio CD one day! It's funny cuz
with a 4x write CDR you can burn a 70min (worth of music) CD in about
16min!
waiting for DVD to get in the mix,
Nate
Nate Harrison
Digital Magician Inc.
www.digimagician.com
nate@digimagician.com
313.994.7316