[CS-FSLUG] ISO Image Quality & Burn Speeds

[Fred A. Miller]

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 2:34 pm, Don Parris wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:57:01 -0600
>
> "Nathan T." <celerate at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm finding this thread stranger and stranger.
> >
> > I have a Plextor burner and an LG CD/DVD+- burner, with both of them I
> > can burn CDs at the highest speeds (40 on the first, and 48 or 50 on
> > the second) and still get an apparently perfect burn, the CDs work
> > perfectly and never develop problems.
> >
> > Now we have this thread which sounds like something I might have heard
> > 8 years ago, where CD burners are no longer considered reliable above
> > speeds of 8x and everyone's burner is so unreliable that they can only
> > burn some brands of CDs with them. Is the situation really this bad
> > with everyone's CD/DVD burners? If so then why don''t mine have any of
> > these problems?
> >
> > _______________________________________________
>
> Who knows?  I can burn a simple data CD at max speed, and I can access the
> data.  When I burn an installation ISO at 24x or higher, I keep getting
> error messages during the installation.  This occurred with 3 different ISO
> images.  When I slowed it down to 16x, it worked beautifully - and on a
> second box.  I previously tried to re-use a Morphix ISO image to install to
> another box, but the same kinds of errors that I now see kept cropping up.

Nathan, I have an idea that may or may not work. I use K3B or XCDRoast, but in 
both you can set the amount of buffers in MB. Have you tried increasing that 
setting?

Fred

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