[muglo] Toast 4 and 8.6

Yes, I have only 32 megs on my 7300.  I'll check out Toast 5.  In the 
meantime, for those of us still using Toast 4 and 8.6, pls note that 
it is definitely wise as Eric has suggested below to use a separate 
extension set and the minimum number of extensions when using the cd 
burner.  I've also found, for some reason, that setting the extension 
set back to base after using the cd burner, and restarting TWICE 
seems to help.  Insence probably wouldn't hurt either.  Haven't tried 
that yet, but thanks for the tip.

>on 4/1/02 10:27, Leith Peterson at lpeterso@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>  Thanks for the info.  Yes, I'm using Toast 4.1.2 with a USB Card.
>>  The manual and all the troubleshooting guides for Toast definitely
>>  make it clear that it's better to use 9.x, 8.6 being the minimum.
>>  However, upgrading to 9.x means installing some expensive RAM, and I
>>  think it would be better to go the route of getting a new usb cpu,
>>  rather than investing in RAM on a scsi system.
>
>UGH. USB CD-RWs (I have one, and the lab next to mine just bought one
>(Iomega)... big mistake... they should've shelled out the extra $75 for
>FireWire)
>
>Do you have only 32 MB RAM??? Otherwise, it would be worth installing OS 9.1
>(running virtual memory) just to run Toast once in a while.
>
>As for OS 8.6: for the longest time I ran Toast 4.1.2 on OS 8.6, even on my
>B&W G3 & iMac Rev A (piece of @#$@). I had a special install of 8.6 that I
>used _only_ when burning in Toast 4.1.2 (with my LaCie 4/2/2 CD-RW (the
>_first_ USB CD burner to make it to Canada)).
>
>I had the _bare_ minimum of required 8.6 extensions. EVERYTHING that wasn't
>needed for Toast was removed! Before each burn I would open Toast, prepare
>the CD-ROM to be written, and save the description file in Toast, _or_
>create a disk image.
>
>Then, I'd restart the computer into the bare minimum 8.6 install [burn some
>incense, make a sacrifice of a small animal, plant or child to the CD-RW
>gods, dance], turn on the burner _after_ I heard the bong (which was off up
>to this point), wait for the Finder to appear, _only_ open Toast, load the
>info for the burn, and burn. Then I'd walk away from the computer and not
>touch _anything_ around it.
>
>That seemed to give me fairly stable burning conditions and I didn't write
>too many coasters (those that did predictably fail were attributable to a
>bad batch of Memorex CD-Rs).
>
>For a while I also made sure I had a CD in the internal CD-ROM.
>
>BTW Toast 5 is sooooooooooooooooooo much better. I can work in the
>background, it barely ever crashes, and I rarely (1/10<1/20) burn a coaster.
>
>>  I'm glad you clarified regarding a corrupt file not verifying.  I had
>>  been told that corrupt files do cause this.  However, I had found it
>>  odd that sometimes when verifying I get a verification aborted
>>  messages and sometimes I don't, even though I'm backing up the same
>>  software.  So, yes, it does look like it may be a CD burner-related
>>  issue.


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