I would like to write an article about burst writes.

Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
edited November 2003 in Hardware
This is here becasue it is heavily hardware related and relevant to HD and DVD and modern CD-RW drives. CD-RWs in CD-R mode at highest speed, burst write and increase rotational speed. The MMC3 capable DVDs and Cd-RWs CAN stream at about UDMA\ATA\66 speeds if put in accellerated mode with a very high end speed request from the burner software. I thought ideas about th details of how to do this would form some interesting discussion, and might open some eyes, and an article might also be agood start point if a thread was associated with it. Any Interest in this??

John.

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  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited November 2003
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  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Ok, will work something up in my spare time, send it Gen. Keebler's way. No images though, period. Words will do fine for this. Will be .doc format, but probably not XP Word native. Likely to be 97\2000 Word format out of Openoffice or WordPerfect Office.

    John.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I would think rtf format would be better as it removes the possibility of having incompatability issues with older and newer software because you john are always behind on software because you prefer older software and slightly newer hardware you've said yourself. so i think if you were to get it to keebler in an rtf format possibly with the oldest version you can think of that would be the best, I think also that rtf is cross-platform just in case he were to accidently open it on an IRIX computer or maybe a 1983 sun computer but you may have to compile source for tat one.

    Thrax who thinks that the world should be an rtf document so it would be compatible in the modern day era because a user's needs are important when designing a computer.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Um, word XP can directly import word 97\2000 and both thingsd I mentioned can output that. RTF is non-existent on Linux, adn I tend to preformat things some. I actually could gen HTML faster, if not needing to be of XML aka Frontpage kind, so probably will go with word. I lose linux data about 1\3 as often as Widnows data, despite backing up Widnwos more often. EXT3 is hyper stable these days, partly because it is journalled with same or better effectiveness than XP's NTFS. My linux box is also surfing box and a two HD box with two trays and bays for cold-swap. So, will gen in OOo and submit .doc converted from that. I do NOT own or need Word per se.Have cross-compatibility at 1\4 its price. Like OLD Windows stuff, new Linux stuff.... (just to clarify) :D It will be in a file system format you all can read easy, that does not carry over Internet submissions in sense of local storage system-- doc is doc. Do an IMPORT, specify Word 97\2000 in any of the things I mentioned. I HATE RTF format, dude. Modern XP stuff is just not completely compatible with 98 SE, it was tuned for NTFS storage some and slightly skewed to favor it.

    John-- who still gets and sells 98 SE OEMs as well as XP. Older folks get 98 SE, younger, XP.
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited November 2003
    A word document will suffice. It allows me to see the way you want the article formatted. I have to reformat every submission anyway.

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    Looking forward to it! :)
  • Josh-Josh- Royal Oak, MI
    edited November 2003
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    -.-
    Josh
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