Hello Nikenn,
The answer to this is yes, it is possible to burn directly from the PC
to the notebook drive, but it may not work as well as you'd like.
I assume that if you are intending to do a direct file burn to CD that
the two machines are connected via a network. If that's the case, you
could map a drive on the notebook to the PC. This is done through
Network Neighbourhood or My Network Places, depending on your version
of Windows. On the Notebook you would just select the shared folder
or drive that's on the PC, right-click, select Map Network Drive, and
give it a drive letter.
At this point you have a drive letter on the notebook that points to a
folder or drive on the PC. In your burning software you should then
be able to just select the mapped drive letter, then select the files
you want to burn. If your software won't let you do this you might
want to try another burning application.
The only real consideration here is whether or not the data will
transfer over the network fast enough. Most older CD-RW drives, and
even some newer ones, will stop burning and cancel the operation if
they run out of data to burn. So if you are burning at, say, 16X,
which is about 2400 KB/s, you might find that your network isn't able
to get data from the desktop to the laptop fast enough to keep up with
the drive. Even a small delay in getting the data across would mean
that the drive runs out of data to burn and ends the process half way
through. This could be a particular problem if the laptop is running
with a wireless connection, which may be relatively slow and prone to
interference.
The best thing to do is to copy the files over from the desktop and
burn them off the notebook hard drive, but if storage space is tight
on the notebook that might not be convenient. In that case your best
bet is to just burn directly over the network from the mapped drive,
but do it at a very low speed. This should prevent the drive from
burning faster than the data can arrive over the network. The
inconvenience of waiting for a CD to burn at 2X or 4X is much less
bothersome than having to throw out a CD that fails half way through
the burn process.
I hope this solves your problem. Best of luck with the burning.
Hibiscus |
Clarification of Answer by
hibiscus-ga
on
26 Oct 2003 14:42 PST
Hi Nik,
Without a network what you want to do isn't impossible, just a bit
inconvenient. You can use a peer to peer USB cable like the one
listed here from Iogear:
http://www.iogear.com/products/product.php?Item=GUN161
It's available from Amazon.com for $25 here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000683DY/ref=ase_techadvicecom/103-7369148-8351868?v=glance&s=electronics
USB 1.1 is much too slow for transferring large files, and will
definitely be too slow to keep up with your burner. It transfers at a
maximum of 24 Mbit/S, but it never achieves any great speeds (the
maximum is theoretical). USB 2.0 is 20 times faster and would be able
to keep up.
Transerring files via FireWire is super fast, but requires firewire
connections on both machines. It also requires special software.
Still, there is a product available for both PC and Mac that lets you
do this called Firenet. It's available here for $55:
http://www.devdepot.com/description.html?PCODE=SUFNET
The easiest thing would be to just create a peer to peer network
between the machines. You can either use a hub and connect the
systems to it to form the network, or you can buy a special network
cable called a crossover cable that allows you to connect the two
machines together directly to form a 2-system network. Remember,
though, if you buy a crossover cable it can ONLY be used for that
purpose and won't work for connecting the system to a hub at a later
date.
I hope this cleared things up.
Hibisucs
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