[TriLUG] Vexing CD Burning Problem

[Paul D. Boyle]

Ed Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 12:22, Brian Daniels wrote:
> > 
> > You are burning the cd's correctly.  Not all cd drives can read CD-RW 
> > disks.  Some very old cd-rom drives even have trouble with CD-R's.
> > 
> > They can all read the pressed discs that come from a manufacturer.  CD-R 
> > and CD-RW use different methods to record data and different laser 
> > frequencies.  
> 
> I've also had problems with CD-Rs and CD-RWs on older machines.  I've
> found that the "silver" or "gold" colored CD-Rs tend to work better then
> the "blue" ones.

This is useful information.  I burnt a CD-R on the (picky) Yamaha drive.
I'll see if it can be read on my home box this evening.

> ps - Are all of the machines running Linux or some other Unix?

All machines are running Linux and nothing else.  The kernel versions
vary: 2.0.35, 2.2.16, and 2.4.10.  The 2.0.x and 2.2.x are custom compiled
from virgin sources, while the 2.4.10 is the stock kernel from SuSE 7.3.

I have this feeling I'll be buying a new CD-RW for my home box.

Thanks for the notes concerning various incantations of mkisofs and
cdrecord.

Paul

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