CD ROM doesn't read

[Sean]

Try burning them at 2x. The lighter grooves of the faster cd burners make
it harder for the older less accurate drives to read them. I use el cheapo
compusa media and am able to read it with a mac 6100/66 with is about the
same era but only if I burn at 1-2x if I burn at 4x forget it.




On 26 Oct 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> Dennis <dennis@pipper.net> writes:
>
> > I have an old Gateway P-133 with a Wearnes CDD820 CROM and the cd's I
> > bought from CompUSA don't work.  Every distro I try to install tells
> > me it can find the CDROM drive using those disks, if I grab a
> > commercial CD, it works okay, but I' have to keep getting those from
> > the library.
>
> Very old CD-ROM drives will not read CD-Rs.
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