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Posted by Bob on 08/29/05 19:32
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:40:26 +1200, Brian <bclark@es.co.nz> wrote:
>>>But the hard drive is only capable of recording one program at a time.
>>Why do you think that?
>Because when I'm recording a TV program to the hard drive, I can't do
>any other recording on my DVD recorder. It would be nise to be able to
>copy a program from the hard drive to a DVD disc while recording a TV
>program to the hard drive. It would be also nise to be able to record
>from an external souce such as a video camera to the hard drive while
>recording a TV program to the hard drive, but this is not possible.
>And the reason must be that in the case of my DVD recorder and it's
>likely to be other DVD recorders is that they are only capable of
>recording one program at a time to the hard drive.
What you have just described is a limitation of the program that
controls the DVD Recorder, not a limitation of the hard drive itself.
>If I record from my video camera to my computer hartd drive then try
>to move a group of programs from one partition to another partition on
>my hard drive then I get drop outs in the picture as there is no
>longer that constant stream of data to the hard drive.
Again, that's a problem with the program that controls your recorder,
not a limitation of the hard drive.
With a multi-tasking disk operating system, you would be able to do
multiple tasks all involving the hard drive - like UNIX, Windows NT or
an old IBM mainframe system does. Even a task switcher like Win9X or
Win3X could simulate multitasking and let you do the things you
described.
The hard disk is fully capable of handling multiple simultaneous
requests.
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