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Re: Recordable CD (CD-R) as backup devices?







On Thu, 8 May 1997, John Kim wrote:

| What I've heard is that because the CD-R writes in one
| continuous track (like the old phonograph grooves), the PC
| *must* be able to pump data to the drive without fail.  Don't
| try to multitask when it's running, and SCSI is best.  Also, I
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         This really depends on your operating system! 
Real multitasking/multiuser systems do not have any problem 
with it.

M. Eyrich
michey@prz.tu-berlin.de


| don't know if a PCMCIA SCSI port would be up to handling a 4x
| CD-R (650MB/17min = just over half a MB/sec, and remember your
| PC needs time to read the data too), and any APM BIOS functions
| could jeopordize the process. 
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| John H. Kim
| kim@mak.com
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