Toast timer?

[Regal]

This is not a biggie, but I did notice it.


On my burner software TOAST I notice that when I burn DVD+R's it shows a timer on when the media will be completed.
And on DVD-R's it shows no timer, but the blue line on the bottom showing how far it is completed.

Does anyone know why TOAST does this??

[willrob]

I'm using Toast 6.09 and it times my DVD-R burns. Not accurately since I upgraded to the Pioneer 109, but it tries.

[chikanakan]

I think that was a bug in Toast 6.0 or 6.0.1. You should update to 6.0.9.

[willrob]

I'm using 6.09. Someone else on the list explained it as Toast thinking the same burn rate would be used on the whole disk, but the 109 switches burn rates as its burning.

I've noticed a similar problem in iTunes: If I start to burn a disk (and the speed I select doesnt seem to matter—24X is the max for iTunes, anyway), iTunes will start the burn and present an estimate countdown clock of how long it will take. If I use a stop watch to time the event, the (for example) 8 minute prediction from iTunes proves to be only 3 minutes real time.

This is the reverse of the Toast problem, which predicts faster times (3-4 min for 16X verbatim media) and ends up with10 minute burns (closer to 8X).

I'm not sure what my problem is, since many people report 16X burn times with the 109. But there are some of us who can't get close. I'm sending the date from a 400G RAID, so it's not a case that the drive isn't getting the data fast enough. There was some discussion of this at xcelerate your mac, and the moderater seemed to suspect the G4's burner ATA bus speed was too slow and suggested connecting the drive to the faster ATA-100 or ATA-60 drive ports. But I've maxed out my drive space and even experiment at this point.