IO Magic 24x10x40

[samcboy]

Modern CDRW's naturally require a much more powerfull system
to be reliable, my friend has a new CDRW on a Athlon 2000
1GB RAM 40GB SCSI 10KRPM HD and churns out coasters
all the time, or atleast CRCxxx?:O errored CD's. I also decided
to upgrade from my x4 which did any burn in never more than
15mins including leads/TOC all backups work inc SD2.xxx and
Prtctd Audio. Old CDRW required a pentium 60Mhz 8MB RAM
New Ricoh 24/12/40 requires P3 800Mhz 256MB RAM
and with my backup drive ATA 66 does coasters, only works
with ATA100 7200RPM also doesn't work with my old reliable software and new software is sht always complaining about
the CDR media quality - literally, I keep getting wrong media
errors and media speed errors in new software - old software
just burns it.

Oh yeah, I now burn in 3min + 1min TOC/Lead but still takes
longer than old drive with all the hassle in new software.

If burning takes long in x24 (which should take just over a minute)
try burning at my favourite speed x16 or less, because drives
automatically initiate error control at high speeds which slows them greatly, x8-20 may be faster than x24, it all depends on
when the high speed error control firmware code kicks in.

Oh yeah, CDRWIN RLZ!!!