From: Changhsu P. Liu :Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] CR recordable on a pentium 90


> You sub-system is more important than the speed of your computer for
> writing to CD. If you can continuously feed 600K/sec to the CD recordable,
> then you're fine. Any drop of data would create a coaster. You might be
> able to write CDs at 1X or 2X (300k/sec) on your system. I have a SCSI CD
> recorder, and I can work on many programs (e.g., Eudora, Photoshop,
etc...)
> while CD burning at 4X in the background on a Celeron 300a.
>
>  >   I am thinking about buying the Acer 4432A 4Xx4X32 cd-rw recordable.
Two
>  >    questions.
>  >
>  >    1) Will it work satisfactory on a pentium 90? The box in the store
says
>  >    a 133Mhz is the minimum requirements. Or will it be problematic
making cd
>  >    copies at the slower clock speed?
>  >

I had a Sony SCSI cd writer work on a Pentium 75 Mhz in an IDE system. I
believe I had a PIO mode 4 Hard drive.  I had to shut down all programs
running in the background but was able to write cd's at 2x speed which was
all that was offered at the time.  With a Pentium 90 I would definitely want
to go with a SCSI cd recorder to avoid burning coasters.

Mary Wolden

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