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Sebastien · Apr 14, 2003, 06:22 PM

Waiting 2hrs just to be able to burn a data DVD is beyond ridiculous (and no, Toast isn't any better)

Hemi425 · Apr 14, 2003, 06:44 PM

Originally posted by Sebastien:
Waiting 2hrs just to be able to burn a data DVD is beyond ridiculous (and no, Toast isn't any better)

I thought you were being serious for a minute there! The only thing that i have noticed is that the sound sticks don't crackle during the intro of hell's bell's anymore, not that it's worth it for what's now wrong!

Sebastien · Apr 14, 2003, 06:49 PM

I *AM* being serious...

edddeduck · Apr 15, 2003, 07:50 AM

Originally posted by Sebastien:
Waiting 2hrs just to be able to burn a data DVD is beyond ridiculous (and no, Toast isn't any better)

What speed is your drive?

As I use Toast all the time and it's 30Mins @ 2-Speed for a full DVD more or less. I never use Apple's burning tech as it makes a copy of the data on the HD before buring this takes to long.

But 2 hours? never seen that unless you cannot feed the DVD-R with the data fast enough.

Cheers Edwin

wulf · Apr 15, 2003, 08:26 AM

Originally posted by edddeduck:
What speed is your drive?

As I use Toast all the time and it's 30Mins @ 2-Speed for a full DVD more or less. I never use Apple's burning tech as it makes a copy of the data on the HD before buring this takes to long.

Yup. Toast + original Superdrive (A03 @ 2x) = ~25 minutes for a full data DVD (~4.3GB)

Takes a bit longer to do the verify of course

Sebastien · Apr 15, 2003, 07:51 PM

I'm not talking about the speed of the drive, I'm talking about preparing the 'image' *before* it actually starts writing. It takes the Finder over 2hrs just to 'prepare' 4.2G, then it starts copying. Toast just hangs it seems if there's several thousand files (making it useless)

Sebastien · Apr 15, 2003, 07:54 PM

Originally posted by wulf:
Yup. Toast + original Superdrive (A03 @ 2x) = ~25 minutes for a full data DVD (~4.3GB)

Wasn't the original a 1x?

edddeduck · Apr 16, 2003, 04:23 AM

I have a verification window appear in toast, I can either click skip and burning starts straight away or wait the 30 seconds for the verification to complete.

What machine are you running? As I have never had the problems you had.

Cheers Edwin

wulf · Apr 16, 2003, 12:12 PM

Originally posted by Sebastien:
Wasn't the original a 1x?

I think the first Mac that had Superdrive was the PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio), in which the drive writes at 2x... My PowerMac is the next iteration (original Quicksilver) but I think it's the same Superdrive.

Could be wrong of course, I often am

Anyway, your disk burning prob sounds like a mighty PITA - reminds me of burning DVD-RAM on the old Gigabit Ethernet PMs, it would take the whole afternoon. And I think they were only 2.6GB or something... Sorry couldn't be more help.

Sven G · Apr 16, 2003, 12:58 PM

... It's also a shame that the 4.3 GB+ free space needed to burn DVDs from the Finder necessarily has to be on the system partition.

A very good thing would be some form of (reliable and stable) packet writing � la DirectCD in future versions of OS X (as has been discussed here some time ago, BTW)...

nobitacu · Apr 16, 2003, 01:21 PM

I have a 17 inch... so I can only burn at 1x...

it does take awhile to burn a DVD... but not 2 hours... more like 1 hour.

Ming

Sebastien · Apr 18, 2003, 02:58 PM

Originally posted by edddeduck:
I have a verification window appear in toast, I can either click skip and burning starts straight away or wait the 30 seconds for the verification to complete.

What machine are you running? As I have never had the problems you had.

Cheers Edwin

iMac G4 800 15"; Toast quite happily accepts the 40000+ files (tried it with only a few thousand too), proceeds to 'verify' them, then wastes my CPU at about %50 for at least an hour (could be more, didn't wait for it to finish) before doing anything else.

Bloody piece of crap, it is.