Can you burn a CD and Use your computer at the same time?

[eakers]

i can't but my comptuter is a pos.

 

[spanky]

back in the day with my old computer and old burner... no. but with my more modern computer and burner.. yes.

 

[Anubis]

yes i burn at 40x and can do anything else that i want

 

[Spac3d]

Yep, no problems here while burning cds.

DVD-r has had some problems

 

[Eli]

I have a burnproof drive, so yes.

 

[Supermercado]

I've not had any problems with it. I've got an 800PIII with 768MB RAM, XP Pro, WD800BB hard drive, and a 52x burner. Most of the time, I just start burning and then type like three sentences in AIM and then I have to label the CD. Heh.

 

[Sid59]

i can .. acutally i usually do word processing, mp3s and may surf at the same time, never had a problem

P3 866
512 MB
XP
Plextor 4012A

 

[iamme]

CD-RW: yep
DVD-RW: i might, but i'm too paranoid, so i don't do anything in the background. (it does say that it has a buffer, but i'm not sure if that's the same as burn-proof.....or maybe it's just for the CD burning capabilities)

 

[toant103]

i have a 52X burner here

 

[Eli]

Geez, heh, make my 12x seem slow. It was TOTL when I bought it.

 

[CraigRT]

You cant be transferring files and multitasking and all kinds of stuff... posting and listening to music while burning is no problem though.

 

[Lithium381]

yeah, i have to close most things and let it run alone...if even an IM pops up it screwes it over

 

[prodigy]

Originally posted by: Spamela
of course. my SCSI plextor can handle anything.

 

[LordUnum]

Yes and I've done so ever since purchasing my first burner over four years ago: a Yamaha 4416s(csi).

EDIT: WTF, quoted

 

[Armitage]

The only time I've seen the input buffer drop below 100% significantly on either my home or work system was when doing seriously disk intensive stuff. And even then, no coasters. CPU intensive stuff doesn't seem to bother it at all. I always burn straight to disk, (ie. not creating an iso on disk first).

Work: 1GHz PIII, 512MB, IDE Software RAID1, Linux 16x IDE burner
Home: 1.2GHz Athlon, 384MB, 3Ware IDE RAID1 Linux 12x IDE burner

 

[Zombie]

I do it with my 8x SCSI Plextor and I have lowend p3800. I have played divx movies and Soldier of Fortune while burning the CD.

oh and in last 3 years I have only burned 2 costers which were also due to my own mistake(was messing around with system settings :confused.

 

[kmac1914]

Even though i need to upgrade my comp (Athlon 950, 512 ram, XP Pro), I still dont usually have to worry about that. I've even been doing work in Photoshop while burning CDs with no problems.