On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 16:57, Marcin wrote: > I think that during his presentation, Szemir mentioned that disk sub type > somehow indicates the quality of the media. I'm currently using pinkish > "Power" CD-Rs purchased a while ago from QDI and I'm only getting B-. So is A > better than B? Or perhaps it only means that different disks need to be > recorded using a slightly different writing process?
The problem often with CD's is that you don't know up-front if you are going to have a bad or good quality. I used to like Memorex CD-R(W)s very much. Then one day I bought a spindle of Memorex CD-R's. Only 1 in 9 CDs were actually good enough. That particular spindle of CDs were a very low grade. I found out the hard way just because one pack of Memorex was very good, it doesn't mean the next one will. Maybe it was a different rated speed (40X as opposed to whatever I had before, for example). Often the company that puts their brand name on the CD will buy the CD from some other company who actually creates them. That info never shows up on the label. The only way to find out is to open a pack, insert CD and run "cdrecord -atip". Of course you can't return the pack anymore after you opened it. I've gotten stuck with many bad CDs. It's frustrating when your favorite brand all of the sudden goes bad and you have 50 instant frisbees. Or maybe it's just me and nobody has this problem. -- Gerard Beekmans http://www.linuxfromscratch.org http://www.beekmansworld.com // Linux Consultant --- OSDN / DevChannel // If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem
