Re: Media migration - archiving old computer floppies onto CDR

[mikeford@netwiz.net (Mike Ford)]

In article <717gfr$g80$1@opal.southwind.net>, Randy Shackelford 

> Even in these days of $1.50 blank CDs, I shudder at the thought of wasting
> disc space. I have my old Quadra 700 set up as a dedicated CD burner. It
> has an external CD600 and an APS CD-RW connected, and a 2 gig internal hard
> disk. The hard disk is partitioned with three volumes exactly 650 mb each,
> with the remainder left as a boot volume. I use ethernet to get files to the
> scratch volumes. I've burned HFS data discs containing quicktimes mostly, but
> some backup discs and quite a few audio discs too. With this scratch disk
> method, you can get CDs exactly full. I only burn full discs.

All the CDR I have used so far have been nearly free after rebate, and I
have about 3 boxes of ten sitting by my desk waiting to use. I find I am
spending more on stuff to put CDRs in, than the CDRs (using CaseLogic
pocketed notebook sleeves). Once you have a few hundred CDs, the job
becomes keeping them sorted enough to be usefull. This is all personal
preference of course.

What I have questions on is the partition size of 650 MB. CDR will hold a
total of 640 MB, and have a file sector allocation that is different from
most hard drives (smaller files will have less wasted space on CDR). I
happen to use 850 MB, mostly so I can move files around, and that I still
don't have everything wired on burning CDs. With the larger partition I
can put on a bunch of stuff, then trim it down to fit on a CD (which isn't
always clear until a test burn is done).