Number 204 - May 2000

Changing CD Drive Speeds
During the April Q&A period, it was noted that CD drives with speeds up to 50x are being sold. General experience and advice given suggests that much slower speeds should be used when writing to CDs. Tom Stepanek recommends writing music at 1x. To successfully transfer data, many suggest using lower speeds, and to use a technique accessing memory and the hard disk as a buffer and not to try direct disk-to-disk data transfer. Direct disk-to-disk transfer often fails because synchronization of disk drives has proven to be a problem such as one drive reading and sending data faster than the other drive can accept and record it.	Since we had the projector setup for the CD Burner presentation, while we had the Windows 98 desktop image projected on the screen a visitor, brought by Ray Mills, clicked on My Computer to display the system components, right clicked on the CD icon displaying CD speeds available by clicking: Properties/Settings/Current Read Speed and Current Write Speed. You can then select the desired speed in each case from those offered.
Number 204 - May 2000