* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021117 16:11]: > At 04:33 PM 11/17/02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > >I think Clemens said something to the effect that there is nothing > >more annoying than the presence of an example. Your best bet would be > >to load up this old box (actually pretty nice hardware!) you have and > >burn a CD while doing "other tasks" and watch the fifo while you are > >doing that. As long as the fifo does not drop below a comfortable > >margin for safety you should be fine. > > How do I watch the fifo? > > The new IDE CD-R has "BurnProof" so I think that will indeed help.
Yes, you'll be fine. This is the buffer underrun protection I was talking about in my other post in this thread. This is supported by cdrecord and works very well. Use the option 'driveropts=burnproof' with cdrecord and you should be fine, no matter how loaded the box gets. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- #include<stdio.h> int main() { puts("Reader! Think not that \n" "technical information \n" "ought not be called speech;"); return 0; }
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