What does buffer underrun mean?
It means you have an attractive new coaster for your table. Generally speaking, the CD recording process can’t be interrupted in mid-session. Once the laser starts writing, any interruption would create a physical gap on the disc that could confuse CD readers. The recorder must always have data to write, from the moment the recording starts until the session ends. To avoid a situation where a temporary slowdown in the computer causes the write process to fail, the makers of CD recorders put a write buffer in the drive, usually between 512K and 4MB in size. Data read from the hard drive, tape, or another CD is stored in the buffer, and pulled out as needed by the recorder. If the recorder requests data from the write buffer, but there’s none there, it’s called a buffer underrun. The disc is still spinning, but there’s no data to write, so the recording process aborts. This was a very common and very annoying problem for many years, so most recorders released in 2001 or later have option
(2002/11/15) It means you have an attractive new coaster for your table. Generally speaking, the CD recording process can’t be interrupted in mid-session. Once the laser starts writing, any interruption would create a physical gap on the disc that could confuse CD readers. The recorder must always have data to write, from the moment the recording starts until the session ends. To avoid a situation where a temporary slowdown in the computer causes the write process to fail, the makers of CD recorders put a write buffer in the drive, usually between 512K and 4MB in size. Data read from the hard drive, tape, or another CD is stored in the buffer, and pulled out as needed by the recorder. If the recorder requests data from the write buffer, but there’s none there, it’s called a buffer underrun. The disc is still spinning, but there’s no data to write, so the recording process aborts. This was a very common and very annoying problem for many years, so most recorders released in 2001 or late
The CD writing process can’t be interrupted in mid-session. To prevent this from happening, the makers of CD recorders put a write buffer in the drive, usually 512K or 1MB. Data read from the hard drive, tape, or another CD is stored in the buffer, and pulled out as needed by the recorder. If the recorder requests data from the write buffer, but there’s none there, it’s called a buffer underrun. The disc is still spinning, but there’s no data to write, so the recording process aborts.
It means you have an attractive new coaster for your table. The CD writing process can’t be interrupted in mid-session. To prevent this from happening, the makers of CD recorders put a write buffer in the drive, usually 512K or 1MB. Data read from the hard drive, tape, or another CD is stored in the buffer, and pulled out as needed by the recorder. If the recorder requests data from the write buffer, but there’s none there, it’s called a buffer underrun. The disc is still spinning, but there’s no data to write, so the recording process aborts. You can still use the disc with multisession CD-ROM drives by closing the session and starting another, assuming there’s enough space left on the CD, and assuming your pre-mastering software didn’t choose to finalize the disc for you. Advice for preventing buffer underruns is scattered throughout this FAQ. A brief summary: • Use a fast, AV-friendly hard drive (i.e. one that doesn’t do slow thermal recalibrations). Pretty much all drives sold in t
