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Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by sfla, 2003/10/25.

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  1. 2003/10/25
    sfla

    sfla Inactive Thread Starter

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    Have little prob. w burning cd from 24 speed cd to sony burner, says buffer over run , wondering if should change buffersize & where & how to do in sys config buffer now at 40.

    running 98se 220 ram old 66 speed p2


    thanks for any help in advance
    Rick
     
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    PeteC

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    I am not sure that you can change the buffer size for a CD-RW - it's generally built into the burner (?).

    This is a fairly commom problem with older CD-RW drives - the drive tries to write faster than the CD-ROM can deliver and there is no sophistication in the drive to reduce the burn speed to cope with the lack of data flow.

    Best suggestion - copy CD to HD and burn your copy from the HD.
     
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    DugE

    DugE Well-Known Member

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    I have a 24x cd drive but it can't burn at 24. Does excellent at 16.

    -John
     
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    You'll be very luck to get an "on-the-fly" copy to work on your kit at 24x even if you have the CDROM and CDRW drives on different IDE channels. With a P233MMX on my "work-horse" PC I can only get 4x speed on-the-fly, but 16x from an intermediate HD image. I'ts much quicker to use the HD image route.

    Both previous suggestions are valid - burn from an HD image and/or reduce the burn speed.
     
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