Subj : Problem Reading Cd
To   : CHRISTOPHER PERRAULT
From : ROB MCCART
Date : Sat Sep 17 2005 06:54 pm

CP>Again, the only thing I did differently when I did the actual save of
  >information is I chose the 4X write speed instead of 1X, I stuck with the
  >defaults on all the other options.
  >I am running
  >AMD K6-II 500 mhz
  >(new) Antec 500 Watt power supply
  >AverMedia TV Tuner card(this was also installed right before the OS reinstall
  >One Hard Drive (Western Digital 7200rpm 100 Gig)
  >and one optical drive, an Optowrite 48x16x48x CDRW.

I'm curious why you are burning at such low speeds ?
Often slow speeds create more errors than higher speeds
because the drive is just not designed to run that slow.

Super slow burning is often used to duplicate certain copy
protected CD's which have a lot of odd data purposely built
in just to confuse the burner but for straight data copies
the burner knows the maximum speed the disks can support and
will adjust itself to accomodate that. I won't guarantee they
can be read by every CD drive out there but the drive that
burned it should have no problem reading it later.

I was a fan of low speed burns when I was still using my
old LG 32x 4x 4x as it's disks could be read by Anything
including super old 1x and 4x CD drives but I recently
replaced it with a newer LG 52x 32x 52x CDRW and it burns
at whatever speed the disks support and so far I haven't
had a single 'coaster' burned. I've seen it auto-dial-down
to 4x for some old CDRW disks I still use and go as high
as 48x for some newer CDR's I have, and they all work fine.

BTW..  I'm using Nero 6.6 Ultra for this..  Not sure if
there's a Linux version of that or not..

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