Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Apr 29 2025 10:40 am

-=> Nightfox wrote to StormTrooper <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: floppy disks
 Ni>   By: StormTrooper to Nightfox on Mon Apr 28 2025 09:28 am

 St> There was a time, around 95/6 where the with burning software was ALL
 St> buggy. If you burnt a CD using win95, it would become useless on any later
 St> O/S I'm can't attest to what the actual error is, but I can attest it was
 St> a thing.. had a series of CDs that wouldn't read, hung on to them for
 St> years til I discovered what the issue was.

 Ni> I've seen some weird things like that.  One thing I noticed is that if
 Ni> I burned CDs on the maximum speed, they'd often read okay in my PC, but
 Ni> other CD-ROMs and CD players might have trouble reading it.  I found
 Ni> that it was best to burn CDs at the slowest speed available, and that
Ni> generally helped.

A rule of thumb that I used was to use half the speed of the disk, or burner.
Burning TOO slow could yield suboptimal results.  The dyes and burners are
designed for higher speeds.
 
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