On Sunday 23 December 2001 06:57, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > My friend has a 8x4x32 Acer CD-Writer and I got a lot > of trouble with the quality of recording, not for sure > what is the reason. cdrecord informs that everything > is ok but after that the newly created cd can not be > mount ; no medium found, and using another cd drive is > the same. Sometimes it is ok sometimes not (almost > 50%). It is worse under windows 98 and cd-easy creator > ...) > > I suspect the hardware or the disk, mostly I burnt > using the cheap Sanyo CD-R 80min/700MB disk (the > surface is light green, not gold color like gold > ultima type). > > any one knows of the reason ? And I am going to buy a > cd-writer for my self too then I need an advice for > the type of cd-writer and the disk I should use.
Get a CD-Writer with Burn-Proof (or similar sounding) capability that helps prevent coasters due to the dreaded buffer underrun (not enough data being fed to your high-speed writer). An 8x4x32 is fairly ancient. A decent writer now would be in the neighborhood of 16x10x40. Drives manufactured by Plextor have long had Burn-Proof. Other 16x+ drives should also have this capability, unless they decide to go the Yamaha route (large 8MB or so buffers). My Writer now is a Liteon 16x10x40x (cheap but with Burn-Proof). BTW, the newer writers appear better able to cope with no-label CDR's (or those of a Lesser Brand). As a matter of principle, I rarely buy "branded" CDR's that come in fancy cases which only end up doubling our un-biodegradable hi-tech waste. I make just as many coasters with jewel-cased CDR's as with those that come only in store wrapping. The caveat is to buy single before you buy the whole batch. -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."