I have 48x media right here. It was bought in winter I think. On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 17:57, Ward William E DLDN wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael Wardle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi Bill > > > > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 03:26, Ward William E DLDN wrote: > > > I hadn't seen any replies to this yet, so I'll venture an > > observation > > > of my own: CDRW should be the master device on any IDE chain that > > > they are attached to, at least whenever possible. I've noticed > > > marked reliability concerns and performance concerns when the CDRW > > > wasn't the primary on it's chain, so I would switch the two drives > > > around. > > > > My original decision was because the other device is a DVD-ROM drive, > > and I wanted it to have any performance gain as I was intending to use > > it to view DVD movies. > > > > Thankfully, after configuring both the DVD-ROM and the CD-RW > > as IDE-SCSI > > devices, any reliability and performance issues have disappeared. > > Well, that's good. Make sure you check to see that you have UDMA turned > on for the drives (if they support it), BTW. Check hdparams. I'll still > stand by the writer working best as the primary (and I have the opposite; > my DVD is the slave on the chain with the writer), but if it works well > enough for you, that's good enough, right? :) > > > > Some media, however, are not able to burn well at higher speeds (I > > > still have media my drive will default to 8x for, although > > other media > > > I can burn on at the full 24x; the drive (and most of the > > better modern > > > CDRWs) can detect the maximum media speed relatively well). I have > > > yet to see 52x media, so you've got something there (I've only seen > > > media rated at 24x, though the best media I've found is > > actually only > > > rated for 8x > > > > In case we're talking about different things, I was referring > > only to 48 > > speed CD-R (write once) media. I haven't looked for CD-RW > > (write many) > > media recently, however last time I purchased some they were > > only rated > > at 8 speed. > > Nah, we're talking about the same thing... blank CDR media. I > haven't seen any media rated higher than 24x, but I haven't looked > since the fall, either. The best media I've ever gotten was rated > as 8x, but I find >IN MY DRIVE< that it works at 24x without problems > most of the time (one coaster, but I chalk that up to a bad memory > stick in my machine). As for RW media, I've seen some that's "faster" > than 8x (I've seen 16x) but I'm not real concerned about rewrite speed; > I only use the rewriteables once a month or so (for archiving a few > impossible to recover any other way data files for a church ministry, > to take up-to-date drivers to my dad for his machine (no internet > connectivity), and to pass a few files to a friend who lives a few > hours away; otherwise, I just use the old LAN/Internet combo. :) -- Molnar Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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