Re: CD writing under Linux

[Ghins Mathai <ghins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Atul Chitnis wrote:

> <<snip>>
> How long did it take to actually write the CD? A 600 MB image takes 30 mins
> at 2x on my 8000i.

I cannot give you a fair idea. The problem is that my data was only 35 MB.
Total writing time was reported to be 109 s ( by cdrecord ). The actual time
was between 2 - 4 mins. Will let you know if I use it to write a big image.

> However parallel port throughput is no way as high as
> IDE/SCSI. Would be nice to know these figures for comparison. I played it
> safe with the internal CD writer, but paid a heavy price for it (about 8K
> more than the 7200e), so was wondering what the tradeoff is.
>

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