[KLUG Members] IDE cd burner

[Bryan J. Smith]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> For IDE burners I look for models that have the "burnproof" option.
> That allows the burner to stop at a fixed point when it's buffer
> gets low, and restart the burn without trashing the CDR.  Basically
> that means you can't trash a burn with a buffer underrun.
> I haven't look lately, but I've only seen a couple different brands that
> have "burnproof".  Plextor (my personal favorite), and Sanyo (I think).

Most 16x+ drives have it, or some other brand (BurnProof(TM) is a
brand name).  Ricoh, Yamaha, TDK and others have similiar or the
same.  I just picked up a TDK 24x with it.

Some vendors are not including big buffers anymore since they sport
BurnProof(TM).  I think that is stupid, especially with memory so
cheap.  Almost every 10-24x on the market nowdays only has a 2MB
buffer.  At 24x, that is barely a half-second!  Plextor and Yamaha
still seem to sport 4-8MB buffers though.

> The only other problem I've found with IDE burners is if they lock
> up for some reason (usually rare), it requires a reboot to fix them.
> Where SCSI devices can usually be unlocked with a cdrecord -reset.

Yeah.  Although you can usually restart them by unloading and
reloading the "ide-scsi" driver.

> That's the way mine is setup, and it's no problem with burnproof!  :-)
> Without burnproof, I wouldn't be able to do a CD to CD copy at anything
> faster than 8X.

Note that "BurnProof" _will_ slow down your recording, especially if
it happens repeatedly.

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