CD burner slow - Follow up....

I posted a message a month ago, asking help with regard to burning
CD with the bundled CD burner and Roxio software. The problem was that
it took 25 minutes to burn a music CD which seemed slow. Various
tips were offered.

I burned my first CD since then, and I noticed that there was an option
in the Roxio Easy Creator 5 software. I had a choice of recording using
"Track at once", or "Disc at once". Track at once was the default and
that took 25 minutes. I chose Disc at once instead, and it only took
6 minutes. The only difference that I can see is that there are no
2 second gap between tracks with the faster option.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what the difference is, and why the
dramatic difference in speed?

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"K. Wing Wong" skrev i meddelandet
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I posted a message a month ago, asking help with regard to burning
CD with the bundled CD burner and Roxio software. The problem was that
it took 25 minutes to burn a music CD which seemed slow. Various
tips were offered.

I burned my first CD since then, and I noticed that there was an option
in the Roxio Easy Creator 5 software. I had a choice of recording using
"Track at once", or "Disc at once". Track at once was the default and
that took 25 minutes. I chose Disc at once instead, and it only took
6 minutes. The only difference that I can see is that there are no
2 second gap between tracks with the faster option.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what the difference is, and why the
dramatic difference in speed?


Do you have the cd-rom and cd-r on the same IDE cable?
If you have it like that ,that is the problem.

The CD rom and CD-RW is the same drive. I emailed Compaq support
and they came back and told me that the behaviour is normal. They
also told me that there is no way to put in a gap between tracks
using the Disc at once option.

"Conny Enström" wrote:

"K. Wing Wong" skrev i meddelandet
...

I posted a message a month ago, asking help with regard to burning
CD with the bundled CD burner and Roxio software. The problem was that
it took 25 minutes to burn a music CD which seemed slow. Various
tips were offered.

I burned my first CD since then, and I noticed that there was an option
in the Roxio Easy Creator 5 software. I had a choice of recording using
"Track at once", or "Disc at once". Track at once was the default and
that took 25 minutes. I chose Disc at once instead, and it only took
6 minutes. The only difference that I can see is that there are no
2 second gap between tracks with the faster option.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what the difference is, and why the
dramatic difference in speed?


Do you have the cd-rom and cd-r on the same IDE cable?
If you have it like that ,that is the problem.

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