CD ROM doesn't read

Dennis dennis@pipper.net
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:48:14 -0400


Ben and Sean,

Thanks for the tip.  Never thought of the ancient hardware issue. I will 
try the slow burn next time I burn a CD.

I appreciate it.

Dennis

At 12:53 PM 10/26/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
>
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>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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