On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 3:38 am, David E Fox wrote: > I'm really new at this, by the way. I have managed to coaster > two CD-Rs so far, and burned OK twice on one verbatim CDRW. Maybe > the media make all the difference? $15 for 100 cdrs is a good > price, but not for 100 coasters (god I hope not) :(. But then > again, back when floppies were all the rage, getting one or two > unformattable floppies in a box of ten was a fairly common > occurence. > The media does make a difference. In general cheaper media need to be burned slower, and preferably not packed full. I would not use faster than 8x, and some suggest that 4x is needed.
HTH Anne
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