[muglo] Re: OS 8.6, MRJ 2.2.3, QuickTime 4.1.2

  • From: "Eric D." <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 13:00:26 -0500

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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