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Hi all....

Just woundering how many costers people produce when burning DVD`s/CD`s just by making stupied mistakes like forgetting a setting or something like that???

Thankyou all, John72.

0, my drive is burnproof

Probably about a hundred over the years, and yes my drive is also burnproof.

However coasters make, erm, great coasters. :)

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Cant remember the last time I made a coaster now, but back when I started writing CDs, 5-6 years ago - ahhh the heady 2x speed writers, I made quite a few. The real pain was that it took 1/2 an hour to discover that you had made a coaster, these days I wouldnt mind the odd coaster, as the whole burn is only 5 mins.

What is buffer under run error & burnproofing?

There`s better explanations that this elsewhere but, briefly...

buffer-under-run.
When you burn a CD the laser must work continuously therefore it must have access to the data you wish to write to disk all the time.
Information about to be stored on a disk is stored in a buffer which is filled by the CD burning software from whereever it is actually being stored (i.e. another CD, your harddisk or somewhere on the network). The buffer isn`t big enough to hold all of a CDs worth of information, only a few seconds. If for some reason, the buffer is being emptied (i.e. burned onto the disk) FASTER than it can be read from the original source, the amount of data left in the buffer gets smaller and smaller until at some point it runs out. That is buffer under-run. The laser doesn`t know what information to burn to the disk, so you get an error and you make a coaster. Burnproof technology basically overcomes this problem with various techniques.

This item was edited on Saturday, 3rd May 2003, 15:12

None.

But I`ve not had it that long, and mainly use "CD-RW", unless it`s for music and I use normal CD-R`s.

My drive seems to make more coasters than CDs at the moment... think it`s time to replace it!

Although my current burner is relatively slow, I have in the years I have owned it, not had a single failure.

The secret ? simple, use reasonable quality discs, use good burning software ( I use Nero ) and buy the best quality drive you can afford.

I hope to have several more years use from my 12 speed Plextor drive ( I don`t burn pirate movies, MP3 discs or Warez ) so for backing up it`s fine.

P.