Being a computer tech in the quote 'real world' <read: inside the Matrix> I'm fairly embarassed to ask this, but I guess -as the old adage goes- no one knows everything about everything.
Anyway, is there any performance difference between having CD's burn off of CD's 'on the fly,' as Nero states it, when the CD-drive and burner on on the same IDE channel or on separate ones? Master? Slave? I seem to be burning a lot of coasters lately (though I recently had to bury SCSI from my system recently so I could be over-sensitized to this sort of thing).
Sam
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I quite often do 'on the fly' nero burns from my CD player (master) to CD-R (slave). Performance varies wildly ! It'll go through stages of saying that its avoided underruns millions of times to stages of saying that it was all fine and dandy.
Not sure if this can be right but it always seems better when I'm not doing anything else with my machine . . . call this armchair science !
As an armchair scientist, I am wary of using the same IDE bus 'on the fly' burning - at 12X it just feels like it is really working to capacity, and any little thing will make it lose its concentration . . .
These days I usually rip the cD to the hard-drive and do it that way - never fails and I was getting pretty pissed off with dead discs all over my room !
Not sure if this can be right but it always seems better when I'm not doing anything else with my machine . . . call this armchair science !
As an armchair scientist, I am wary of using the same IDE bus 'on the fly' burning - at 12X it just feels like it is really working to capacity, and any little thing will make it lose its concentration . . .
These days I usually rip the cD to the hard-drive and do it that way - never fails and I was getting pretty pissed off with dead discs all over my room !
If you use "on th fly" and a burning speed - lets say at 8x, then don't set the reading speed at the highest, set it at 12x. If you set it at the highest readingspeed, it will read to far ahead, and wait for the burningprocess to catch up, and in the meantime, it will speed the reading disc's rotationspeed down, which it will then have to speed up again, when the writingprocess catches up - Still with me? 
- it's the speeding up again that causes trouble here at my system. When I changed the reading speed to 12x, the "on the fly"-mode worked as promised.
Thomas
PS. I don't touch my system when it is burning - those few time I've tried it, it will corrupt my cdr's.
- it's the speeding up again that causes trouble here at my system. When I changed the reading speed to 12x, the "on the fly"-mode worked as promised.Thomas
PS. I don't touch my system when it is burning - those few time I've tried it, it will corrupt my cdr's.
Each IDE controller can only either send or recieve data at any given time. When the sender and the recipient are both on the same controller, the controller wil constantly switch between sending and recieving.
The better solution for this purpose is to have the sender and the recipient on seperate controllers. As far as I am conserned, it does not matter if they are masters or slaves.
The better solution for this purpose is to have the sender and the recipient on seperate controllers. As far as I am conserned, it does not matter if they are masters or slaves.