Digital BW, The Print

Hello Group, 

Since there are obviously some folks here that keep up to date on the reasons our machines work as they do....I have a simple technology question for you..

I have a firewire external CD Burner that I use to burn archive CDs of images.  This is connected to a 800mhz PC with Windows 2000 and 500mb RAM.  

Just last night I tried to back up images (burn) to some 16x CDroms.  I picked the speed using Adaptec Easy CD Creator software....the speed was 8x which is the rated speed for the burner.  

The Verbatim blank CDROMS are 16x and 700mb version.

I selected about 600mb of data image files and clicked burn....and waited and watched as the burn software showed progress to about 93% or so and then the CD would report "ERRORS REPORTED."

The error?  "Buffer Underrun."  

This is the first time I have encountered this problem.  It created Coasters as the  images would not open in Photoshop.   I have not had this problem before (I used to use Kodak and Maxell CDs).   What gets me is that I went through this several times (wasted time each time) waiting to backup the disc so I could use my CF card.   The delay was "costly" in this case. I want to avoid that. 

I have not read up on this issue/problem and simply want to know if there is a technique to use or a simple step to take/avoid that I should know about.  I was blissfully ignorant of the issue until now. 

Is it that I am sending too much data for my memory? 
Is it that I am using an 16x disc with a 8x burn rate?
Is it the media?
Is it that I am using a 700mb disc and should limit the amount of data to write to it (say to 500mb?)?

I know there are CD burners that promote the use of "Burnproof" technology...this burner does not have that though.  

Suggestions?

Thanks in advance. 
Steadman




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