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1997-09-14 20:22objet @Sorry about the non-IDM content, but I need to ask this: Can I burn CDs with my crappy old

From:: objet @ <lacanian@mindspring.com>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 13:22:33 -0700
Subject:: (idm)CD-R for 68030 Mac?

Sorry about the non-IDM content, but I need to ask this: Can I burn CDs with my crappy old 68030 Mac (IIvx)? Eveyone I ask in realtime gives me a shrug... thanks -- sr -- sd

1997-09-15 08:50Pete Ashdownobjet @ said once upon a time: >Sorry about the non-IDM content, but I need to ask this: >

From:: Pete Ashdown <pashdown@xmission.com>
To:: <lacanian@mindspring.com>
Cc:: Intelligent Dance Music <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:50:36 -0600 (MDT)
Subject:: Re: (idm)CD-R for 68030 Mac?
Reply to:: (idm)CD-R for 68030 Mac?

objet @ said once upon a time:

quoted 3 lines Sorry about the non-IDM content, but I need to ask this:

>Sorry about the non-IDM content, but I need to ask this: > >Can I burn CDs with my crappy old 68030 Mac (IIvx)?

Gooood luck buddy boy. My experience with burning CDs on a 180mhz PowerMac and a 166mhz Windoze machine is that you had better not breathe wrong on the machine while it is playing. Opening other applications can cause breakdowns in the recording process. I really doubt that the 68030 Mac has the oomph to stream the data out to the CDR in a constant manner. It might just be my CDR that has the problem, but I figured that Sony had things fairly well together.

1997-09-15 17:03Gil YakerOn Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Pete Ashdown wrote: > objet @ said once upon a time: > > >Sorry about

From:: Gil Yaker <orbital@hazmat.com>
To:: Intelligent Dance Music <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 12:03:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject:: Re: (idm)CD-R for 68030 Mac?
Reply to:: Re: (idm)CD-R for 68030 Mac?

On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Pete Ashdown wrote:

quoted 9 lines objet @ said once upon a time:

> objet @ said once upon a time: > > >Sorry about the non-IDM content, but I need to ask this: > > > >Can I burn CDs with my crappy old 68030 Mac (IIvx)? > > Gooood luck buddy boy. My experience with burning CDs on a 180mhz PowerMac > and a 166mhz Windoze machine is that you had better not breathe wrong on > the machine while it is playing.

Oh I agree here. On my 100Mhz pentium machine I have to close out of everything, free up as much memory as possible, and fast for three days before I can get a good write. I've probably toasted a half a dozen CD-Rs, but I'm still getting around 70-80% so it's okay. I unfortunatly don't have any experience with CDrs on macs, but you better have atop notch SCSI card on a windows machine to be moderatly successful. Then again, I often get weird hardware errors with the Pinacle drive we have. So I'm not sure what the problem is. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ gil yaker / orbital@hazmat.com

1997-09-15 17:19Nate Harrison [Digital Magician Inc]Sorry no music content... you wrote:I unfortunatly don't have any experience with CDrs on

From:: Nate Harrison [Digital Magician Inc] <nate@digimagician.com>
To:: Gil Yaker <orbital@hazmat.com>
Cc:: Intelligent Dance Music <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 17:19:14 +0000 ()
Subject:: Re: (idm)CD-R for 68030 Mac?
Reply to:: Re: (idm)CD-R for 68030 Mac?

Sorry no music content... you wrote:I unfortunatly don't have any experience with CDrs on macs, but you better have atop notch SCSI card on a windows machine to be moderatly successful. Then again, I often get weird hardware errors with the Pinacle drive we have. So I'm not sure what the problem is. I write: Maybe I'm just lucky, but I burn about 10 CD's a week here at work on a Quadra (40Mhz) with Toast 3.0. We have 2 burners, one on a qudra, one on a 7200, and I have never burned a bad CD... I don't think fast machines is the issue. Get yourself a fast burner and an AV capable hard drive, and you're set- Nate Nate Harrison Digital Magician Inc. www.digimagician.com nate@digimagician.com 313.994.7316

1997-09-15 18:21Random JunkPete Ashdown writes: > >Can I burn CDs with my crappy old 68030 Mac (IIvx)? > > Gooood luc

From:: Random Junk <jsd@gamespot.com>
To:: Intelligent Dance Music <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:21:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:: Re: (idm)CD-R for 68030 Mac?
Reply to:: Re: (idm)CD-R for 68030 Mac?

Pete Ashdown writes:

quoted 5 lines Can I burn CDs with my crappy old 68030 Mac (IIvx)?

> >Can I burn CDs with my crappy old 68030 Mac (IIvx)? > > Gooood luck buddy boy. My experience with burning CDs on a 180mhz PowerMac > and a 166mhz Windoze machine is that you had better not breathe wrong on > the machine while it is playing.

hmm, i have a lowly 100mhz powermac 8100 and it has never written a dud yet (except for when i installed a new philips 2600 unit which turned out to be defective. i got a replacement unit (same model) and it immediately burned 12 perfect discs). of course, the mac software doesn't multitask in any way at all, so once the disc starts writing i just turn off the monitor and go away for 30 minutes. try to get software that can use system RAM as buffer space. i use 16 meg of buffer in my cpu and the unit itself has 1mb, so underruns are very unlikely. -- Jon Drukman jsd@gamespot.com SpotMedia Communications ...I was an infinitely hot and dense dot...

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