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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (10915)	9/30/2000 7:55:43 PM
From: Paul Ma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Hi Bill, All of those conditions you described are under an IDE burner. SCSI burners are not affected. I run programs, play games, basicially anything I want and 95% of the time it's fine. There are no real drivers for CD-ROMS, and this is true for burners as well I think. I use win2K and my plextor 8x/20x never asked for drivers. The only program with win2k is that it was incompatiable with adaptec easy cd 3.5c and earlier. I had to call microsoft tech support when I installed it and it totally destroyed my system. Adaptec now has a patch out, but I never use it anymore. Nero is the best software now. Oh and Win2K rocks!!! No crashes! :) Paul

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (10915)	9/30/2000 10:51:23 PM
From: crazyoldman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Bill and DARBES, Re: When making CD copies it is important that there be no other tasks running. Bill, I think the advice you gave is OK, I've heard/read this advice before in the last few years. However I have one observation and please keep in mind I've never burnt a CD on my own in my whole life: The "Head Animal of All Power Users" (the fellow who shares my office) has an IDE HP CDROM R/W (don't know the model) and burns many CD's in a month. He is using a Slot A 700 MHz processor in an Asus K7M with 256K of PC100 SDRAM. I have routinely seen him burning CD's while simultaneously running many other tasks and I mean many, in both foreground and background. I simply marvel at what he gets away with. Now I don't think this is the preferred way to do things, and probably not the safe way to do things, but he winds up with very few coasters. I'd guess his success rate is in the mid 90% range. My conclusion after seeing this is that powerful processors such as the Athlon has removed many of the problems and roadblocks of yesterday. Kindest regards, CrazyMan

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (10915)	9/30/2000 10:53:39 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

I have used CDR (4x)made by HP, Pioneer, and Philips. I prefer to burn at 1/2 of full speed (2X) even though it is slower. The CDs burned at below peak speed just seem to be more capadible with CD players. CD-R disks are more error prone than normal silver CDs. The seem to have less margin. I can program without buffer under-run all day long as long as I do not do very many other tasks and have the burn contents stored on a local HD (burning content through the network is problematic). I use a 400 Mhz dual pentium to burn and web surf while the disks burn without problems.