[PLUG] problems with gcombust -- was-- CD further burning
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at attbi.com
Tue Sep 17 18:01:45 UTC 2002
On 17 Sep 2002, Derek Loree wrote:
> When both drives are on the same controller, they both cannot be
> accessed simultaneously. This can cause big problems. The main
> thing to keep in mind: once the burner ignites, it must have a
> continuous stream of data, any interruption will cause the burn to
> fail. This is the main reason for having the data to be burned on
> the harddrive (on a separate controller from the burner). It is
> also why you don't want to burn data from a mounted network file
> system either.
Of course, some of us burn CDs across the network all the time,
figuring that an occasional toasted burn[1] is a small price to pay
for the convenience of storing ISOs on the network. :-)
--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>
[1] Which is completely theoretical in my experience. On my home
network, an nfs-mount image has never failed to provide a good
burn.
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