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From: tvv@tschil.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Thorsten Frank von Vietinghoff)
Newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.hardware
Subject: Re: need rec. on DOS based CD-making system
Date: 5 Jun 1994 13:34:49 GMT
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smentzer@anes.hmc.psu.edu (S. C. Mentzer) writes:

>I am putting together a proposal for a DOS based CD-ROM recording system. 
>The main purpose of this system would be to archive data. Not doing 
>high production. Anticipate cutting only a few CD's/month.

>I have a colleague that makes CD's on the MAC. He had a few problems 
>getting his pinnacle system to work. Turned out the disk with the master data 
>did thermal recalibration which fouled up the timing. These are the types of 
>issues I'm hoping someone can clue me into on the DOS side.

Some manufacturers of hard discs (e.g. Micropolis) offer special AV hard
discs (which means audio/video), for which they guarantee a specific
sustained data transfer rate. This would be best to use. Thermal calibration
does not necessarily cause a buffer underrun. If the buffer of the CD writer
is large enough and/or the duration of the recalibration is very short,
you will normally not encounter such problems. It is recommended by some
CD recordable software manufacturers to use a separate SCSI host adapter
for the CD recorder to enable posted writing.,

>If anyone has any experience with some of the low end DOS CD makers 
>particularly specific hardware combinations that work (or don't) I'm all ears.

Philips CDD521 together with CeQuadrat's DosOnCD works fine for single session
and multiple volume CD-ROMs. It comes bundled with WinOnCD Lite and MacOnCD
Lite, so you have three platforms for one (low) price. 

cu,
	Thorsten

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