I think I just fixed a problem that was bugging me and thought some one else might use this. I just got a 56X cd-rom to replace the 16x I had so I could write to my 12x burner without buffering first. It is an Afreey 56x udma33 and was only $39 and works great (average digital extraction 16x) BUT......
I rarely could finish copying an audio cd without the cpu hanging up. The read light on both the cd-rom and the hd (not the burner) would stay on and I would have to power down to clear everything up. It seems that this is a "read-ahead" problem of some sort and was fixed (with no negative effects) by going to the control panel: system: performance: file system: cd-rom: optimize access pattern for: "no read ahead".
Works great! By the way I thought I needed a Kenwood 72x to do what I wanted but I think most new cheap 50X+ cd-roms will work fine.
I rarely could finish copying an audio cd without the cpu hanging up. The read light on both the cd-rom and the hd (not the burner) would stay on and I would have to power down to clear everything up. It seems that this is a "read-ahead" problem of some sort and was fixed (with no negative effects) by going to the control panel: system: performance: file system: cd-rom: optimize access pattern for: "no read ahead".
Works great! By the way I thought I needed a Kenwood 72x to do what I wanted but I think most new cheap 50X+ cd-roms will work fine.
