On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:53:47PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: ... > it is the CD. or the drive take your pick. ive been burning cds for about 6 > years now and i CONSTNANTLY see that problem. no matter what the cdr brand > (from plextor to sony to matshita etc), to cdr media brand(tried about a > dozen different brands). and ive tried about 6 different cd-r drives > and in at least 3 different operating systems on probably a dozen different > computers. it happens accross all of them. some more some less. especially > on large files. and of course ive tried about 8 different cd-r programs. > > CDROMs just dont play well with CDR media. some of the older drives do > (~8X ide) some drives are better then others but on the dozens of cdroms > ive used all of them have the problem to some extent. CDR/CDRW drives > have the best chances of reading a CDR/CDRW CD media. now on small > files like MP3s i don't see it happen as often, mostly on large > 100MB+ files(almost gauranteed if its 200MB+ on any drive). > > after all the variables i have changed my conclusion is that cdr > media just doesn't work in some cdroms. maybe its the lasers in > the drives themselves..maybe its the vibration/rpms ..who knows.
Just to make sure you're talking of *CD-Recordables* here and not _CD-Rewritables_? I myself I've never seen or heard of such problems with CD-Recordables. On the other hand I've experienced and heard often of all the above problems in relation with _CD-Rewritables_ . -- groetjes, carel
