[GLLUG] Re: linux-user digest, Vol 1 #932 - 3 msgs

[Matt Graham]

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 16:58, after a long battle with technology, 
Ex Fed wrote:
> Has anybody had problems with incompatiblity problems with CD-Rs
> created on one machine and read with varying results on different
> CDROM drives?

No problems here--I burn everything at 12 or 8x, and all the CD-Rs burnt 
have appeared fine in all the machines I've tried to read them in, 
including a Sony Discman manufactured in late 1991.  I don't have any 
really old CD-ROM equipment to test on, though, and I use Plextor 
CD-RWs.

> Is there some factor that might be causing this could it have to do
> with the speed that the CD-R is written?

As another poster wrote, faster burning may result in less deep "pits".  
Really old equipment may depend on the 90/10 land/pit difference you 
see in CD-ROMs, and fail on the 85/15 or 80/20 land/pit difference you 
should see in CD-Rs.  Modern drives with automatic gain control will 
read everything.

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