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Date:	Mon, 14 Jun 2004 20:11:08 PDT7
From:	jbrush@aros.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: DVD writer recommendation

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>I'm not an expert about burning CD's. However, I've never had to throw
>away CD's that did not create properly. I use Bootable and RSJ to create
>an ECS bootable CD. Works just right. Haven't made any musical CD's yet
>with OS/2 or ECS.

You have never had one CD go coaster? I'm impressed... :)

>I believe that if you are making coasters, then you don't have the right
>software, or you haven't set it up properly. From what I've heard, you
>can make alot of coasters, if you do not have sufficient buffer space
>allocated for the burn. HCM

Well, I use RSJ, CDRecord (once), Roxio, and Nero. If that is the wrong
software, I don't know where else to look.

Software that I pay good money for, ought to work out of the box. I have
changed buffer sizes, burn speed, copy to HD first, and every other option
I can think of. Buffer size doesn't explain not being able to read a CD
made on one burner, in a CD player, nor does it do much for the CRC
errors. I have proven over and over again, that a CD created using RSJ
will not always be readable in the same device, when I boot Windows. Its a
pretty consistent failure rate.

Its awful how a CD with data burned in Windows, will not work when I try
to add data to it using RSJ in OS/2, so way back when, I ditched RSJ and
always boot windwoes to burn CDs, until I just gave up altogether.

Today was my monthly Win2000 crash and burn. I goofed and went online
while I was doing some photoshop stuff a while ago, and got a virus.
Cleaned it according to mcafee, but it just imploded when I rebooted. No
problem, I have a system backup on CD....... No, I don't. "unable to read
file, CRC error" yet what irritates the most is, I used that backup twice
before, but now, after sitting in a case for several months, the file I
need is hosed. Can't read it on the player, the burner, or even one of the
two recorders on my children's PCs.

I am aware my frustration boiled over in my post, and so it appears to be
the rantings of a lunatic :) but even tho I should have phrased it
differently, it is all true. I don't even bother making CDs anymore for
anything other than moving a file to another PC that is too big for a
floppy. I will never invest in a DVD device, since OS/2 will not ever
play DVD movies, and storage on a HD is faster, and much more reliable. If
I need 5gigs of space, a hard drive is more than up to the job and can do
it faster, plus, I know the data will be readable six months from now, on
any computer. Such is not the case with CDs.

The bigger issue is that after nearly 15 years, PCs have not advanced,
technology and "good ideas" have been stifled, and we are not really any
better off today, than a dozen years ago. For the first few years of the
PC, advancements and giant leaps came in bunches, usually too fast to even
keep up with, but since the assimilation to M$, the PC has stagnated. Who
would have thought we would have 1 gig of RAM, 2.4Ghz PCs, and 200Gig
drives, and yet nothing works any better today, than it did ten years ago?
If not for old, tired, boring OS/2, there would be no reason to even turn
on my PC :)

See, I went off the deep end again. Sorry. I will let it go

John

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