Options for CD burning on slower machine.

Hi,

At work, we have a system with the following characteristics:
Pentium MMX, 166 MHz
RAM: 32 MB
HD: 2 GB
OS: Windows 98 SE
We use it primarily for acquisition of seismic data.
My question is: What options do we have to install either an external
or internal CD burner
in order to save data which amounts to a lot after one or two
acquisition sessions.
I am particularly not aware of processor speeds and memory requirements
for CD burners.
Your help and suggestions will be much appreciated.

Thanks.

alex wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At work, we have a system with the following characteristics:
> Pentium MMX, 166 MHz
> RAM: 32 MB
> HD: 2 GB
> OS: Windows 98 SE
> We use it primarily for acquisition of seismic data.
> My question is: What options do we have to install either an external
> or internal CD burner
> in order to save data which amounts to a lot after one or two
> acquisition sessions.
> I am particularly not aware of processor speeds and memory requirements
> for CD burners.
> Your help and suggestions will be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
Why a reply which repeats your original post?

On to your question.

There's no issue of the drive; except for high-end functions such as
writing MP3s to CD-DA on the fly, your hardware and OS are fun. The
problem is finding software which supports your drive and runs under Win
98. Each CD writer, internal or external, must be coded into the
database for mastering software; old software rarely supports newer
drives and new software may demand a later OS.

Nero ( http://www.ahead.de/ ) is very popular for all CD and DVD writing
tasks and claims to function under Win98 and 98SE. However, it wants a
500 MHz PIII or better. I suspect that you may need to find a Linux port
such as MKISOFS to handle your problem. It's unfortunate since your
system is ample for the job you define, but not without supporting
software.

Mike
--

http://www.mrichter.com/

The principle problem that you are likely to encounter when using a CD
writer here is not so much the slower speed of the hardware, but the limited
disc space you will have available for temporary files, which will require
at least 1 GB of free hard disc space to compile correctly.

For a business critical machine, it may be time to update the hardware
completely - though you could probably get away with a second hard drive and
almost any IDE writer. My suggestion would be to look at Lite-On. A complete
machine based on (say) a Celeron processor c/w hard drive and combination
reader/writer need not cost more than about £300 (UK).

--
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alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At work, we have a system with the following characteristics:
> Pentium MMX, 166 MHz
> RAM: 32 MB
> HD: 2 GB
> OS: Windows 98 SE
> We use it primarily for acquisition of seismic data.
> My question is: What options do we have to install either an external
> or internal CD burner
> in order to save data which amounts to a lot after one or two
> acquisition sessions.
> I am particularly not aware of processor speeds and memory
> requirements for CD burners.
> Your help and suggestions will be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.

.. --------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
--------------------------------------

alex wrote:
>
> At work, we have a system with the following characteristics:
> Pentium MMX, 166 MHz
> RAM: 32 MB
> HD: 2 GB
> OS: Windows 98 SE
> We use it primarily for acquisition of seismic data.
> My question is: What options do we have to install either an external
> or internal CD burner
> in order to save data which amounts to a lot after one or two
> acquisition sessions.
> I am particularly not aware of processor speeds and memory requirements
> for CD burners.
> Your help and suggestions will be much appreciated.

The system will do slower burns, probably max 16x, if there is enough
free hard disk space. Suggest get CDRWin as it requires less system
resources than other current burn softwares, and get a burner and try
them out.

CDRWin Demo (and use Test Mode burn):
http://www.goldenhawk.com


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On 17 Jan 2005 19:50:43 -0800, "alex" <> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>At work, we have a system with the following characteristics:
>Pentium MMX, 166 MHz
>RAM: 32 MB
>HD: 2 GB
>OS: Windows 98 SE
>We use it primarily for acquisition of seismic data.
>My question is: What options do we have to install either an external
>or internal CD burner
>in order to save data which amounts to a lot after one or two
>acquisition sessions.
>I am particularly not aware of processor speeds and memory requirements
>for CD burners.
>Your help and suggestions will be much appreciated.

Almost all "modern" burners have "smart-burn" or equivalent, which prevents
buffer under-runs. That really means the processor speed is not an issue.

The only issues I see with adding a burner to your system are:

1. The HDD is too small, as someone else pointed out. Whetehr this is cause to
upgrade the system or just replace the HDD (they are not expensive) is your
choice.

2. Finding one out there which has bundled software to suit that harfdware/OS
package. They MAY all be expecting/requiring more platform than that.

BTW, I run a Lite-On 24x10x40 with Nero 5.5.6.3 (it came bundled with that) on a
P1-133/64MB/98SE box and have not had any problems since it went in.

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:01:10 +0200, Graham Mayor <>
wrote:

> The principle problem that you are likely to encounter when using a CD
> writer here is not so much the slower speed of the hardware, but the
> limited
> disc space you will have available for temporary files, which will
> require
> at least 1 GB of free hard disc space to compile correctly.
>
> For a business critical machine, it may be time to update the hardware
> completely - though you could probably get away with a second hard drive
> and
> almost any IDE writer. My suggestion would be to look at Lite-On. A
> complete
> machine based on (say) a Celeron processor c/w hard drive and combination
> reader/writer need not cost more than about £300 (UK).
>

I suspect that the original poster will be using proprietrary hardware
which requires the use of the ISA bus and may also have problems with
faster processors.

I've run Nero 5.5 on a similar but slightly higher specced machine (P200
with 128MB of memeory) with no problem - even when there was less than
100MB of free disc space. Writing on the fly doesn't require much free
space. This machine has a Plextor 320 DVD/CD-RW combi drive in it at the
moment. 16X is about the limit on the 200MHz machine.

Cheers.

James.