What is this Burn Proof CDR thingy?

[xtreme2k]

What is this Burn Proof CDR thingy?

Are there any sites with information on this 'burn proof' mechanism

 

[Kwad Guy]

It's a method, developed and owned by Sanyo, that helps prevent
buffer underruns when burning a CD. For a burner equipped with
burn-proof, when an underrun is detected, the burner turns off
and waits until the buffer refills before the burn continues.

For standard (no burn-proof) runs, when an underrun occurs, the
burn is terminated and the CD is ruined.

For tech info, search the Sanyo site...That's where I'd expect
to find it.

Kwad

 

[LarryJoe]

The laser actually is able to stop and restart under burnproof. As Kwad said, when the laser is interrupted without burnproof, it can't restart.

LJ

 

[xtreme2k]

looking at you guys explantions, it doesnt look all that complicated...

why wasnt it made before? any ideas?

 

[Pretender]

Like all computer things, they were made for smart people to use, and generally smart people will realize that they shouldn't be running other things while burning (with IDE drives, anyway). Now that hordes of morons get burners, burn-proof technology was made for them.

 

[Oyeve]

hahahahahaha......too true platinum! Damn DFU's

 

[Kjazlaw]

it's also a good excuse for manufacturers to cheap out and only put 2 meg buffers into their drives.

 

[beat mania]

I'm impressed with burn proof - they did the impossible: stop and resume burning at the exact point it left off.
I guess it is necessary since now every chump and his mom has a burner.

 

[Linh]

true true. I used to feel special being the only one among my friends with a burner, but now everyone has one.

 

[Redwingsguy]

accually i believe i read somewhere plextor already released one of these and it even showed all how it worked...

 

[lupin]

<< looking at you guys explantions, it doesnt look all that complicated...
why wasnt it made before? any ideas? >>


In most things, the idea is never complicated.

I want to take over the world!

It's the process of making it a reality that's hard.

 

[jaydee]

Here's a site from the Off-topic forum on it. Pretty funny too. BURN-PROOF

 

[Redwingsguy]

nice lil cartoon Jaydee

 

[Zilldian]

Doesn't Plextor make a burner that burns bit by bit? Not saying that I do or would, but isn't that a way to get around write protection??

 

[dmw16]

Burnproofing blows my mind! The laser can turn off and let the disc keep spinning and the pick up again right where it left off. It is definatly FM(F'ing Magic).

 

[hubbs]

Believe me burn proof is something you definatley want. I have made about 10 w/my older 4x burner.

 

[vohwink1]

If you have a fast HD and sufficient ram, burnproof isn't going to matter much. Also if you have a 4mb buffer on the CD writer that will help. Just don't try to render any 3D images or have a bunch of file transfers on an ethernet connection going and you should be fine.

 

[Kwad Guy]

I have actually done 3D rendering while burning a CD on my
12x SCSI burner and had no problems. I have also applied
cpu intensive photoshop plug-ins while burning at 12X and had
no problems.

Of course, I am using SCSI and have a dual processor 2x 800 @ 896Mhz
machine, both of which help

Kwad

 

[SUOrangeman]

A similar, potentially better alternative from Ricoh: JustLink (<-PDF file)

-SUO

 

[vohwink1]

Haha, yeah you're using SCSI and that will make a huge diff

I own the Ricoh 12x-10x-32x burner, and even on my old 350 system with a slow ass HD, the only buffer underruns I have ever gotten were when I had 3 people on my FTP site, 3 mIRC programs running, and a bunch of other crap. But I pefer the Ricoh drive over most drives, its great.