|
Thanks q3arenakman,
Update - Apparently there is ONE type of TDK disc you should be wary of: the REFLEX type. It turns out that these TDK-branded discs come from the RITEK factory - you know, the fatory that churns out Mirror, Nudgen etc. dics.
Just why on earth TDK would choose RITEK is news to me, but there you go. The reflex cd's are not as good as the normal TDK one's as they use a different die.
Also, I'm using a Cyrix 333+ CPU with 128MB ram. I know this CPU is as old as time, but I've found a little seting within Windows that helps you out one hell of a lot: the Windows disk cache. From the Win98 ####t menu, select "run", the just type "sysedit". Now find the field for the "VCACHE" setting.
Here's what Iv'e altered mine to:
[vcache]
MinFileCache=4096
MaxFileCache=32768
The MaxFileCacheSize should be 25% of your RAM. After altering this setting a stopped making so many coasters - alas I can only do MP3 to audio cd's at 4x. But the drive's quiter now and Win boots one hell of a lot faster.
I know I'm going off the beaten track here a bit, but I just thought I'd pass this info on to others who may own a dinosaur computer like mine!
|