File Size

Good
Session Disc

The Apple iTunes Compatibility web page lists support for an "EZQuest Boa 16x 10x 40x FireWire Drive -
Sanyo CRD-BP1400P - Firmware: 5.3" and Toast 5.0 lists the drive as "Generic CRD-BP1400P (MMC) - Firewire."

After much struggling with Disc Burner, "Authoring Support 1.1" was released and finally enabled the use of
iTunes MP3 to Audio CD creation, and Desktop mounting/session burning with Disc Burner on the PowerBook G3.
Creating a 56.51 minute Audio CD of 16 songs from MP3 files in iTunes went very smoothly,
and appeared to finally burn at a full 16x. The total time for conversion/burning was beyond 9 minutes.
Note that copying 689.4 MB to Disc Burner's virtual Disc Image from the Travelstar 12 Gig. HD took
approximately 3:36, writing took about 5:38, and verification took 6:39 for a grand total of 14:53.

Interestingly enough, with Toast 5.0 extensions enabled, iTunes & Toast will burn CDs, but Disc Burner will
not mount/format CDRs for sessions. Toast 5.0 extensions still have to be disabled if Disc Burner is to be used;
in addition to 1.4 Gigabytes of free space just to have the privilege of burning 700 MB CDRs.
The convenience of Disc Burner is still nice though.

* This particular disc takes about 30 sec. to mount in the internal PowerBook CD/DVD drive and an additional
30 sec. to display subfolders & does not display any custom icons. In the Formac drive, it takes about 7 sec. to mount and only displays the custom icon for the CD and not any sub-folders. The files seem to be valid.

**Failure to burn at all; counter:1 sec. = 5 sec. reality. System hangs & lost 2 discs. It seems that this installation of the Toast 5.1 upgrade did not agree with the OrangeLink FW/SCSI Card. No BUS Power attempts were made with any of the PCI-Firewire machines. When using the CDRW as a "read only" drive at 40x, some files and empty folders with custom icons did not copy fully to the PowerBook G3, which did copy fine from the internal CD/DVD drive.

In all Roxio Toast 5.0 tests, at least 35 MB was allocated to the Toast Application,
and a 75 MB freeware RAM disk was used for the "Disk Cache" with the "RAM Cache" set to 64 MB.
The use of the RAM Disk has proven to be more stable & a little faster on several machines since Toast 3.5,
resulting a lot less failures. Extensions were also kept to a minimum throughout testing
and "Background" burning was not utilized with any "G3 Based" machines.

Great Case Design and very quite fan compared to other 16x and lower speed drives. "BPRec" Burn Proof Recording. Hot-swappable firewire interface with included shielded cable. Center resting adapter (black box with power cords at each end) with green LED.
Nice packaging with a plastic three prong cover for the power cord.
Works on BUS power with some computers. Non-slip feet which do not fall off the case.