On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:48:27PM -0400, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2001 22:23, D-Man wrote: > > I think my desktop qualifies as "cheap" ($, I only paid ~$400) > > because I bought some parts and kept some others. It is a Duron 750 > > with 128MB RAM. If I get that drive I will get the free memory and > > have 256MB! > > That said I have never seen an underrun on my system (850MHz Athalon, > 128MB RAM). I don't do any CD to CD copying though.
For what it's worth, I have an IDE CD-RW (made by HP) running on a Pentium 200MHz with a mere 40 MB of RAM and I've never had my buffer go under 87%. However, it only writes at 4x, and I don't do CD-to-CD or pipe mkisofs to cdrecord, either. But buffer underruns are, in my opinion, definitely overrated. Rob -- How's it going in those MODULAR LOVE UNITS??
