simultanious cdr burning

[HPC GUY]

some customer who has his machine here, for some ungodly reason wants 2 cdrs in his computer so he can burn at the same time with both of them, what software would support that?

[Calum]

and he's using windows?

forget it. tell him to use two different programs (like EZCD Creator and Nero Burning ROM for example) at the same time and then when neither of them will work, he'll have proved how fucking useless the whole excercise was from the start.

that's my (admittedly rather negative) advice.

[choasforages]

linux should be able to do it at the sametime, ive nevertested it though

[RudeCat7]

I read a long time ago that, Linux was so stable that you could defrag your hard drive and burn a cd at the same time.

Actually I haven't even thought about defragging in Linux. Do I need to do it?  :confused:

[voidmain]

You really don't need to defrag your drive in Linux, and yes, you can burn CDs and go about your business like nothing is going on without fear of making coasters.  And yes you can burn two CDs at the same time in Linux with two CDR drives.

[RudeCat7]

Yeahhhhh! That's my Linux! That's what it's all about!                      

[trc3]

Yeap, linux runs circles around winderz...

[Master of Reality]

he cant seriously expect windows to be able to do that can he?

[emvy]

It can be done, you just need a stout machine hardware wise and burning software that support it. Padus disc juggler is the only one that comes to mind... And I did it on my 2k box. I seriously doubt a 98/ME box could do it as those os's suck ass at multitasking. I'm sure linux is capable of it also, I just havent used and nux burning program other than cd roast.

[ September 14, 2002: Message edited by: emvy ]

[voidmain]

Xcdroast is not actually a burning program. It's just a front end to a burning program. "cdrecord" is the underlying command line burning program and you can use cdrecord to burn two CDs at the same time with no problem.

And this is using tools that come with Linux every Linux distro. Wonder how much you gotta spend in Windows for this capability? And I burn CDs with my P100 with no problem so healthy hardware must only be required in Windows.

[ September 14, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[sporkme]

there was such a machine i saw on the net the other day.  i will retrace my steps and see if i can dig the bastard up.

however....

my assumpion about cdr burning is that the process is allocated a certain amount of processor time RATIONAL (consider the meaning plz) to other processes running, hence degrading the speed, accuracy, and reliability of a second burning process.  it is definitely a big ugly set of calculations that i doubt windows will like.  without 2 cdr's i cannot test this...   what this boils down to is    WHY THE FUCK???  BUY A UP TO DATE CDR DRIVE and you will save time.

this dude obviously has too much time and money on his hands, please send me his surplus of these to:

[email protected]

[sporkme]

errrrrr   tell him he needs to buy two computers from you, which you can "seamlessly and securely" netowrk (for an extra fee) and then go buy a big nasty american car with the commission.

[RudeCat7]

to: Void Main

How fast can your cd-burner write on the P100?

I used to have a fast burner on a 400mhz machine and it would limit the burning to 8x in winderz.

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by RudeCat7:
to: Void Main

How fast can your cd-burner write on the P100?

I used to have a fast burner on a 400mhz machine and it would limit the burning to 8x in winderz.

What was your drive capable of?  Obviously the hardware has to be capable of pumping the data at the rate you want to burn. On my P100 which is obviously quite old, I have a quite old CDRW (2x write I believe) but it has never made a coaster and it does many other things besides burn CDs (file server, firewall/router, proxy server, internal web server, etc, etc). Burning CDs have no effect on any other operations which I can't ever remember being the case on Windows running on a P100, burning a CD was the only thing you better be doing, and then it would be wise to reboot the machine between burns.

Now on my Athlon 1600 I have two 8x burners with ATA100 hard drives. It has no problem burning two CDs at once, full speed and still can work on the machine like normal.

[choasforages]

i wonder if i can burn at 48x with my 400mhz system? or would i have to use tricks to get it to burn that fast