On Tuesday March 18 2003 05:00 am, Leendert wrote:
> On some sites you can see quality tests of different CD-Rs.
> I found that TDK reflex, Sony or Verbatin CD-Rs are good.
The problem with this advice is that CDr's are rarely manufactured
by the 'brand' name they're sold under. I had one 50 spindle of
TDK's that were about 1/2 Ritek's, the other 1/2 made by CMC
Magnetics. Every spindle of Verbatim's I've had were CMC Magnetics.
Ritek and CMC are OK, but Taiyo Yuden's are better. Fuji Film CDr's
are made by Taiyo Yuden.
Office Max near me sells their own brand which are actually CMC's,
the same CDR's as the Verbatim's they sell, but at almost half the
price. The problem with them is the coated side (label side) isn't as
durable as the name brand CDr's. It's the coated side that is
actually the side where recording is done.
If you put a blank CDr in your burner, and type
tom$ cdrecord -atip dev=0,0,0
Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg
Schilling
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W8432T'
Revision : '1.09'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P
RAW/R96R
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 4
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2)
ATIP start of lead in: -12508 (97:15/17)
ATIP start of lead out: 359845 (79:59/70)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 22
Manufacturer: Ritek Co.
That was from a Maxell brand 700 mb CDr. Just about all the CDr's
sold are made by Ritek, CMC, or Ty-U. IME, Ritek = good, CMC = better
Taiyo Yuden = best.
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