[CUBE] How do I know actual time to finish burning from Toast?

[Daniel Galley]

On 25/10/03 23:47, "Riba" <riba at hi.hinet.hr> wrote:

> 
> On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 11:25 PM, Sean Terrill wrote:
> 
>> Quoth Lithium (coreblue at magicn.com) at 10/25/03 16:00:
>> 
>>> I'm using Plextor's 52x CD-RW drive (W5224TA). Toast 6 says 2:10 to go
>>> but it actually takes 3 or 4 minutes.
>>> It depends which media I use.
>>> So, how do I know actual time to finish burning from Toast?
>> 
>> Toast displays the time to burn the data, not including formatting the
>> disc.
>> Just add a minute or two to account for it.
> 
> Sometimes toast second lasts for two seconds :) I think this is the
> problem.
> 
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I think Toast is burning at the fastest speed it can for the given media,
which may be different from the speed you asked for; so the time elapsed
between seconds is the timeit really takes Toast to burn the CD and not the
theoritical time you asked for.
Burning still remains something of an art rather than a science and it's
often wiser to burn at lower spedd (x8 or 16 looks like a good and
reasonnable compromise); don't be fooled by the speed; there is no use
burning at fancy speed like x48 and so on.


D Galley
danielgalley at wanadoo.dr