Multitasking while burning?

[Fat Nick]

Hi there,

Is it a good idea to do other things whilst copying a CD? For some reason whenever I have copied things before I have not been doing anything else at the time as a friend told me that copying is quite processor and memory intensive and that doing something else (ie surfing or word processing) could make for a bad burn or a buffer underun.

I now have a fairly robust machine (duron 800 with 256MB RAM) so I was just wondering.

Thanks for your help,

Nick

[wolf]

Unless you want to take the chance of making coasters,I'd wait to do other things.

[Toaster]

Do it at your peril!!!!!!!!
Unless you have a Plextor with Burn Proof capability, that copes with buffer under/over runs internally in the writer.

small applications can be tolerated but disk access and processor time should be kept to a min.