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Tom's Hardware Review of Yamaha CRW F1
Tremblay99 writes "Tom's Hardware has a review of the Yamaha CRW F1 CD burner. Not interested, you say? Well, it can burn images on the media side of a CD. While it's not the fastest burner around, it can do CD-RWs at 24x. Not bad at all."
Unless I've completely confused myself, media images wouldn't be very useful on discs which are nearly, or completely, full of data, as the images themselves must come after the TOC.
I rarely find myself burning a CD if it's only going to be a small amount of data, so that normally wouldn't leave much room left for the pretty pictures.
But I guess it may be common to burn a few megs on a CD for some people.
I am very suprised that this is not mentioned in the article but this technology is almost completely useless. The Disk T@2 can only be put on a area with no data. So maybe if you are copying 100MB of mp3's to a cd you could add a bit of text but if you burn more than 300MB or so there is not enough room to put the image. Personally I can't remember the last time I burned a disk with under 500mb on it so this is really a pretty useless feature, however cool I thought it would be at first before I did some research.
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Last week and it's awesome. no buffer underrun errors or other problems and it's superfast. My last one was a budget burner and died after a little over a year. I went with the scsi version.
Highly recommended!
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Hmm.. I decided to reply instead of mod you down, but the media side IS the data side in this context.
True the image writing on the CD is mainly eye candy. But the other features that the CRW-F1 support are the reason I purchased one.
* CAV 44X max CD-R recording
* CAV* Ultra Speed 24X max CD-RW recording
* CAV 44X CD reading
* 44X max digital audio extraction
* IDE interface
* 8MB buffer memory
* Safe Burn technology
* Optimum Write Speed Control technology
* New YDC132-V controller
* Supports overburn
* Supports blank CDs of 80, 90 and 99 minutes
* Supports the DAO RAW mode
* Mount Rainier-compatible
* Advanced Audio Master Quality Recording technology
* DiscT@2 technology
* CD-RW Audio Track Edit
* Ahead Nero Burning Rom 5.5 and InCD software
Oh...And a cool blue LED
http://www.kubuntu.org/
cdrecord already supports this technology - browse documentation and search for discopts=, imagefile=. Be sure to prepare 3000x40 image first :)
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