CAV vs. P-CAV / CLV
As you have seen in the write tests, 24x CAV (beginning at 10x) is much slower than P-CAV (beginning at 19x or 22x). Now the question you could think about is "What is CAV good for then?". Imagine that you write lots of small files to the disc to different positions. When using P-CAV or CLV, then the necessary RPM (Round per minute) will be different for each location on the disc. Thus, seeking does require the engine to spin up or down, resulting in high seek times. CAV, on the other hand, uses a constant amount of RPM, thus the drive is not required to change the amount of RPM and has better seek times when writing small files.
Packet Writing
Since InCD does not allow to reduce write speed, and since we did not have media available for 24x rewriting (remember that the bundled media does not work at 24x!), formatting the disc was not successful and packet writing without using Mount Rainier could unfortunately not be performed...
Mount Rainier
At first, we formatted a disc and copied 400 MB to it. This took 4 minutes and 20 seconds. In order to get the time for formatting again, we ejected the disc, started Nero, chose "erase rewriteable", and got a blue screen of death. This never happened before installing InCD. After rebooting, we did a full erase using Nero.
The disc was formatted with InCD again, but after formatting, it was not recognised as having been formatted. Then, after some more blue screens, we found out how to make InCD recognise the disc: first, we had to format it without Mount Rainier, which was aborted with an error, due to bad media. Then, we had to format it as Mount Rainier, which worked. Formatting took about 20 seconds, ejecting after having written 400 MB took a bit less than one minute.
It didn't matter whether InCD 3.51.61 or InCD 3.37 was used, neither did it matter whether auto insert notification was on or off. It just didn't work properly. You can read about some more experiences with regards to InCD if you want to.
Now, we're going on with media compatibility...
Protected Audio
I'm just waiting for my LiteOn LTR-52246S to arrive. :4
In other things . igot the CMC media and no way i can even burn it at 24x .. It gives me coasters. i have to use 16x. For some odd reason. With some 24x media .. im able to go up to 48x.
BTW, i've got s07 firmware.
Regards,
JamworkS
The writing quality with many media is very bad, i never buy a writer like this
quote is from c-d-r-labs
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