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From:
Andrew Wood
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Date:
Thu, 07 Aug 1997 14:55:19 +1000
Subject:
Re: (idm) About CD recorders
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Oblique Hostility wrote:
quoted 4 lines I think there's potentially a market for releasing music on a 'burn to order>I think there's potentially a market for releasing music on a 'burn to order' >basis. The biggest problem is that you have to have 700meg free on your hard >disk at any given time to hold the CD image, and it's time consuming reading >these images on and off of CD in order to burn new ones.
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! Andrew --- In the event of - a Bomb/Arson threats/Life threats: Basic rules: - treat as genuine; - record exact information