On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > I do seem to have a reliability issue with some fairly cheap green on > gold CDRs. (US$4 ea @ qty 100 with a black label thermally printed on > them by a local company -- supposed to be Sony CDRs, but they were > totally blank before being printed). The cdrom drives on a couple of > our UNIX boxes can't seem to reliably mount them if they are written > at 4X, but (so far, at least) they seem to be OK if written at 1X or > 2X. Does write speed affect the quality of the CDR?
Well, AFAIK some CDR are marked "all-speed". Those are probably a better quality and the suffer less problems if the writer speed is high and/or the difference in speed between the device that wrote them and the device that reads them is relatively big. > Also, are gold on gold CDRs supposed to be better? I found what I > think is a pretty good deal on some HP C4432A gold on gold CDRs at > CompUSA -- qty 25 for US$70 minus US$20 rebate (limit two on the > rebate). Buy a brand name. I usualy buy Philips "rainbow" CDR's, but other named brands like 3M are probably ok too (I don't want my email address to suggest any prejudice ;-) .) I'm not so very sure about the quality of noname CDR's, but then again your needs for quality may also vary. The price is nice but not really spectacular. Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .