31 Jan
1999
31 Jan
'99
11:30 a.m.
Date sent: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:24:34 -0800
Send reply to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)freegate.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: CD-RW Drive
As you've just learned, CD-RW is not the same as
CD-R.
CD-R = CD "Recordable"
CD-RW = CD "ReWritable"
CDROM = read only.
Use a CD-R drive to write CDs that a CDROM drive can read. (some drives
will do both CD-R and CR-RW but these are labelled as such.
--Chuck
Don't yours happen to be Acer CRW-6202 or like?
1. Successful burn of CDR discs requires everything turned off
except for this s/w burner because one miss is enough to ruin or
make it unreadable in some drives.
2. Are you doing a multi-session type? Many older cd drives spat
out this. Better do single-session.
3. Don't bother the 80min CDR discs, use 74min gold discs by
Sony, KAO and high quality ones.
4. Defrag all partitions.
5. No bumps or excessive vibrations to that cdrw drive.
We have no problems using cds from that inexpensive Acer burner
on any drives including the old crusty 2x, 1x drives. :-)
Right now I can see this cdrw drive IDE model around 390 dollars
at my part-time work at computer store.
Jason D.