[Coco] Brands Of Old Diskettes

[Bill Barnes]

I'll double check that then, however the drive that I've seen the reads it back ok, but sometimes other drives have a problem is a Lite-On (if I remember right) DL DVD+-RW.

-Later!   -WB-    -- BABIC Computer Consulting.


--- On Sun, 11/9/08, Torsten Dittel <Torsten at Dittel.info> wrote:

> From: Torsten Dittel <Torsten at Dittel.info>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Brands Of Old Diskettes
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 10:14 AM
> Bill Barnes schrieb:
> > Hmmm, got some HP CDRs here, on a few burners I can
> burn at full rated speed, but on others, it has to be at a
> slower than rated speed or else some CD-ROM drives have
> issues reading them. Wonder if that is the same type of
> deal.
> 
> Regarding CDRs, besides there are better and worse
> qualities available (although most brands come from the same
> few fabrics, I guess the quality testing is more or less
> extensive) and this or that technology (gold, silver, azo,
> green, brown, etc.), I meanwhile got the idea, your CDR
> burner has to "know" the media to achieve good
> results. I have heard, when it all startet with 1x speed,
> the CD burners did some test burning on an unused part of
> the disc, to calibrate the laser power before burning the
> actual data (even before writing the lead in). Nowadays, it
> seems to try to recognize the brand (how ever that works)
> and to use some laser calibration preset, stored in the
> firmware. The older your burner, the less likely it is able
> to work with newer brands of madia without random result
> (might work, might not work). So you should always try to
> find the latest firmware for your drive. E.g. my good old
> YAMAHA F1 (the first one able to write nice holografic
> pictures on the unused border of the CDR), latest firmware,
> is working best with 52x Verbatim DatalifePlus with SuperAzo
> coating burned at 16x, especially for Audio CDs.
> 
> Regards,
> Torsten
> 
> 
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