MakeCD Problems

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MakeCD surely can handle 350 MBs of data.  I did the same thing - I burned a whole bunch of s/w that I d/led, though I wish I understood how to do it in multisession first, which I do now.  I burned it directly without a buffer, but my CD burner is a Plextor PlexWriter 12/4/32 on my SCSI chain.  I would venture to guess that either your HD and/or CD is not correctly set up on your IDE.  BTW, I would leave your CD drive at PIO 4, as fast as it can go.  I myself have the A1200 FastATA MK III from Elbox & this device definitely cuts down the amount of time it takes to burn CDs when the data is on one of the HDs connected to it.  That's one of the big reasons I got it.  I've got 2 2.5" HDs connected to it.  The master drive is a Toshiba MK4006AV 4GB drive that I've had for years & is now the "Master", while I just added a 160GB (149GB usable) Seagate ST9160821A HD as the "Slave" drive in the chain.  They're both capable of PIO5, although it appears that with the Elbox s/w-h/w combination, the fastest speed is currently PIO4.  And this is all inside a standard A1200 casing.

I would first ask yourself if you yourself notice that your HD access is quicker on the whole.  If not, check to see if it's set up correctly.  If this is not the problem, then it must be the way your CD is set up.  Did you also install the Allegro CDFS?

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Got me thinking:

1) Are you using a registered copy of MakeCD or the demo?

2) Have you ever burnt a copy of a music CD before?

3) Maybe your MakeCD prefs are incorrect?

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pan1k wrote:
Its registered, i'll try to make a copy of an audio cd tonight and report back. Thanks again!

I take it that you haven't burnt many CDs using MakeCD?  Is this correct.  BTW don't forget to choose the other icon, CopyCD, instead of MakeCD whenever you want to make a copy of an audio CD.  It would be nice to get a screen grab of your prefs inside MakeCD because CopyCD uses less configurable prefs & has a bit of different panels than MakeCD does.

I was thinking that if you aren't able to copy an audio CD, that would point to a problem with your hardware; whereas if you are able to successfully make a copy of an audio CD, that would point to your preferences in MakeCD are incorrect.

BTW, I make copies of all my audio CDs and use the copies in the car.  That way, if they ever warp or get scratched, I can always make another copy.

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Well, I'm glad that you were finally able to burn CDs successfully.  That's what counts & what we were all trying to help you do.  You might want to do what X-Ray did - make a partition of 700MB & when you fill it up, burn a CD, or you can burn smaller amounts of files choosing the multisession way to completely fill up the CD.