Way to test burnproof/justlink ?

[Shudder]

Normally I shouldn't complain, but I CANNOT get a buffer underrun, even burning at 12x

I flashed my 7120 ricoh to a 7125 (the 25 has justlink) and I want to test if it's even working.

Is there something I can do to make this happen? I've tried defragmenting the drive it was reading files from. I tried moving (not just copying) large files to that drive. From that drive. I can't get it to work

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Are you using the latest version of Nero to do the burns? If so it will have a box checked for anti-coaster technologies and when it starts it says initialize justlink or something like that. Obiously trying to do things that stress the hard drive is a way to test it. Maybe you could force it to encode a movie into DIVx or something intensive like that.

 

[Shudder]

The box is checked.

Hmm.. I'll try encoding, or maybe I'll turn off DMA

 

[Ferretwulf]

To test the BP tech I tried burning a DATA CD using files stored on another PC on my home network. Doing that I ran the buffer to 0% easily, and it still burned a perfect CD.

 

[randypj]

Hey Shudder,

I tried for at least 2 hours on a g/f's 233 pc/12x Plex and could not get it to underrun. I had multiple instances of everything open. I mean everything I could think of....winamp, encoding, zipping...W98 was hesitating....but the burn never trashed.

However, I did NOT try installing a program at the same time I was burning. Hmm....I tried it once on my 12x SCSI non-bp and it got 98% through the install before it crashed.

It would be neat to find something that would force a pause of a few hours....but, I'm betting Win9x would trash first.
--Randy

 

[Shudder]

Hmm..

I'm thinking that the best way would be to copy a ton of files off a CD (since I have the dvd and burner on the same ide channel) or I may just have to do the non-dma thing and copy some files to really chew up my processor and ide bandwith.

 

[bozo1]

I accidently tested my burnproof the other day. I was watching a fairly long MPEG movie while I was burning a CD with my Plextor 16X. After about 10 minutes I realized that the CD wasn't done yet and looked down - no LED activity... HMMM. Well, it was trying to burn the MPEG I was currently watching so I guess it couldn't open the file because it was in use. Anyway, when I closed Media Player, boom - Nero took off and finished burning the CD. Pretty damn cool.

 

[nicowju]

Try accessing your floppy drive, or if you have Windows 2000, just hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to get to the Lock Computer screen and leave it there for a few minutes. If BurnProof/JustLink works, it will keep writing the CD anyway

 

[Einz]

i'm having the same prob? i want to test burnproof on my plextor but i have no clue how. the drive just wont stop writing

 

[Shudder]

Locking the computer? I would think it'd work just fine anyway.

It's sad we have to complain about not being able to get buffer underruns, but I need that peace of mind