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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2007 11:55:33 GMT -5
If you have a CD in the drive, go to DriveSpeed options and hit the detect button so the program will know what kind of speeds your drive supports.
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Post by patrickp on May 10, 2007 13:23:51 GMT -5
gosh, patrickp sure knows a lot... i reread the thread and just realized his posts are definitely the longest, in fact, he almost have all the answers in every thread. I think you said that before, jackofisabela. Thanks for the compliment but, as I replied then, there are plenty of people here who know more than me. I just post a lot... Oh, you have no idea how funny that is. You could try searching the forum on 'god' and 'patrickp,' or 'god' and 'gamesoul master,' but you'll probably find rather a lot of posts to look through (way back as well) if you want to hunt the story out. GM will be along sooner or later, I'm sure, and maybe the Brazilian guys will have something to say! ;D |
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Post by Melanogaster on May 11, 2007 0:26:06 GMT -5
Oh, you have no idea how funny that is. You could try searching the forum on 'god' and 'patrickp,' or 'god' and 'gamesoul master,' but you'll probably find rather a lot of posts to look through (way back as well) if you want to hunt the story out. GM will be along sooner or later, I'm sure, and maybe the Brazilian guys will have something to say! ;D   |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2007 2:58:35 GMT -5
We all remember those horrible times, not just the Brazilian guys!  ;D |
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Post by Gamesoul Master on May 11, 2007 3:32:05 GMT -5
I heard my name. Yes, those were quite interesting times. Good times I must say... XD. Yeah, I remember back when I was a useful and productive member around here. Now patrickp has become such a god (and with the new and old regulars to back him up), that there is no need for little ol' humble me. I'm a relic, left around for comic value... =D
As for exploding discs... pretty sure that quite a few months ago, I explained the story of how my FFVII disc 1 exploded in my CD-RW drive. It had happened while the disc was going at high speed, me copying the movie files off the disc. I looked deep into it and discovered a warning... never let PS1 discs spin at 40x or higher. Apparently (from the info I found plus my own reasoning), the higher speeds cause the disc to heat up, and because the disc is solid black, apparently it holds the heat more than other discs. So it heats up, begins to warp, and then... because of the warped shape, it catches and shatters. Or something to that effect.
Whatever the cause may be, it's been said by numerous people (and STRONGLY backed by myself) that you never let a PS1 disc run at 40x or higher for any extended periods of time (or *never* if possible... just keep it at 32x or lower).
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Post by Ultima on May 11, 2007 8:38:47 GMT -5
Yep, the MythBusters did an episode on this. The flying sharpnel can kill -- lucky they don't pop out of the drive  |
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Post by jackofisabela on May 11, 2007 9:58:37 GMT -5
@ Mika, or any one who wants to reply : (Im just asking this just so I can be sure and avoid breaking another cd, hehe) Nero provides a toolkit, as mika told me, and there I can set the drive speed for a cd in the drive. I can set what drive speed I want. But I dont know how to really check if the drive is reading slower or not. So... afer setting the speed at Nero toolkit > drive speed, will the drive automatically read the cd at the "specified speed" in any application? There are many applications which can use the same cd drive as a source. I mean, like, Windows Media Player and Power DVD are two different applications which both can play cds in the same drive. So, after setting the drive speed at Nero toolkit, will both these applications read (or cause the drive to read) the cd at the same "specified speed"? Thanks. patrickp: |
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Post by Gamesoul Master on May 11, 2007 10:13:37 GMT -5
Yes. Using the utility, any program that tries to access the disc drive shouldn't be able to spin up the disc to any speed higher than the max you set for it. On that note, I recommend 16x as your limit. You can of course set it lower if you want, but I really think that 16x is still fast enough to accomplish anything you may want to do, and at the same time... it's a very safe speed overall for reading discs.
If you're still feeling uncertain as to whether it's actually slowing down the discs or not... set it to an extremely low speed (like 1x or 2x), and try to use various programs to access the disc. You should hear almost nothing in terms of disc spinning. A good test would be to try and extract songs from an audio cd or something... that way, if you try extracting a 4 minute song and you have the max set to 2x, you'll know that it can't be done any faster than 2 minutes.
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Post by patrickp on May 11, 2007 10:46:45 GMT -5
Additionally, most ripping/burning applications allow you to set the speed the application uses the drive at; often with different settings for each operation. For instance, when copying CDs or DVDs in Nero, I'll usually set the writing drive to half the speed of the reading drive, to ensure a constant flow of data. How's it going, GM? Posting at this rate, we're going to have a hard time remembering who you are!  We all remember those horrible times, not just the Brazilian guys! ;D Jealousy will get you nowhere, Mika! I just mentioned the Brazilian guys because AIR it was they who had issues with my apotheosis! |
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Post by jackofisabela on May 12, 2007 2:31:32 GMT -5
Hehe, you guys are funny. thanks thanks.  |
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Post by kinghanco on May 12, 2007 4:33:33 GMT -5
Try pornos dvds. It will explode at max speed. j/k.
Unless it did happen. ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2007 5:04:56 GMT -5
I have my drive limited to 24x read speed, which has indeed worked for me quite well. As GM said, you can quite easily tell if the limiting is working by the sound your drive makes. Reading on 48x makes quite a bit more noise than reading on 4x, for example.
But then again, I always just rip all my stuff to images anyway, and usually I limit the ripping speed from Alcohol 52% (inside the application, as patrick mentioned).
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Post by patrickp on May 12, 2007 6:34:29 GMT -5
Actually, DVDs don't usually run at faster than 16x, so you may be out of luck, kinghanco. I guess you could try pr0n0 videoCDs...
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Post by jackofisabela on May 12, 2007 8:02:36 GMT -5
Um...what does "j/k" stand for? I think it meant joke or something, so kinghanco might just be kidding, hehe. ;D But the thought of it is funny, the porno vcd exploding while watching, hahaha. Specially if you had no idea yet that such things can happen to cds at fast drives (like me before).  ;D |
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Post by kinghanco on May 12, 2007 12:50:35 GMT -5
Yea j/k stand for just kidding.
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