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From: freewheelin@phreak.demon.co.uk (Freewheelin' Franklin)
Subject: Re: Hard drives that don't do thermal recalibration
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In article <2n1i89INNhh5@RA.DEPT.CS.YALE.EDU> griest-tom@cs.yale.edu (Tom
Griest) writes:
>I have heard that the hard disks used in creating Write-once CD-ROMS
>(I like to call them CD-PROM) must NOT do thermal recalibration.  It
>seems that they run fine for 10 mins or so, but the time it takes to
>recalibrate exceeds the buffer used to keep the writing continuous.
>
>Is there a list of drives that ARE good for mastering one-off's?
>I'm looking to get a 1G SCSI drive that I can use later with making 
>one-off's.  
>
>Does anyone know if the Segate 11200N (1.05GB) does thermal recal?
>
>-Tom
>

I use a DEC DSP3160S 1.6G and have had no problems in 8 months using a Mac and
the Kodak PCD200 CD-Recordable writer. It's fast, too!

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