DVD burner

I have a Win98SE machine with a 300 MHz PII processor and 320MHz memory. I
would like to install a DVD burner. While many of the available ones
support 98SE, they state an 800 MHz PIII or later requirement.

My question:

Would such a burner work on my machine -- albeit slowly, or would it likely
not work at all? The amount of burning I would do is small so speed is not
a major concern.

bobster wrote:

I have a Win98SE machine with a 300 MHz PII processor and 320MHz
memory. I would like to install a DVD burner. While many of the
available ones support 98SE, they state an 800 MHz PIII or later
requirement.

My question:

Would such a burner work on my machine -- albeit slowly, or would it
likely not work at all? The amount of burning I would do is small so
speed is not a major concern.


It will work. Processor speed is hardly an issue, harddisk speed is more
important. A single speed DVD is written at about 1.3MB/sec. (so it lasts
an hour to fill a 4.7GB DVD).
To get the best performance, enable DMA for both your harddisk and DVD, and
connect them to different IDE cables.
When your burning software supports it, (Nero does) do a testburn (data is
transferred, but the laser is switched off) to detect the speed your HD-
Chipset-Processor/memory-Chipset-DVD chain can handle.

"Ingeborg" wrote in message
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bobster wrote:

I have a Win98SE machine with a 300 MHz PII processor and 320MHz
memory. I would like to install a DVD burner. While many of the
available ones support 98SE, they state an 800 MHz PIII or later
requirement.

My question:

Would such a burner work on my machine -- albeit slowly, or would it
likely not work at all? The amount of burning I would do is small so
speed is not a major concern.


It will work. Processor speed is hardly an issue, harddisk speed is more
important. A single speed DVD is written at about 1.3MB/sec. (so it lasts
an hour to fill a 4.7GB DVD).
To get the best performance, enable DMA for both your harddisk and DVD,
and
connect them to different IDE cables.
When your burning software supports it, (Nero does) do a testburn (data is
transferred, but the laser is switched off) to detect the speed your HD-
Chipset-Processor/memory-Chipset-DVD chain can handle.

and remember there is a 2GB limit for file size in Win98

"Haggis" wrote:

and remember there is a 2GB limit for file size in Win98

Are you sure about that? The FAT32 file system allows files up to 4GB
in size.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:55:22 -0800, "bobster"
wrote:

I have a Win98SE machine with a 300 MHz PII processor and 320MHz memory. I
would like to install a DVD burner. While many of the available ones
support 98SE, they state an 800 MHz PIII or later requirement.

My question:

Would such a burner work on my machine -- albeit slowly, or would it likely
not work at all? The amount of burning I would do is small so speed is not
a major concern.


My 650Mhz Celeron machine can burn at 8X.

It will play a DVD movie which is quite watchable, though picture
skipping is occuring.

Ross
(To get email address ROT 13)

Tim Slattery wrote:

"Haggis" wrote:

and remember there is a 2GB limit for file size in Win98

Are you sure about that? The FAT32 file system allows files up to 4GB
in size.


That's right. FAT32 allows 4 GB files, but some software uses a signed
integer for filesize, causing a maximum filesize of 2 GB (and a minimum of
-2 GB . Shell32.dll is one of them, causing explorer to be unable to copy
files bigger than 2 GB. The command prompt doesn't use Shell32, and is able
to copy files up to 4 GB.