Speed isn't your problem. Selecting the speed in cdrecord on changes how long the disk took to burn. Older CD rom drives can't read CD-RW disks, period. The reflectivity of CD-RW's is quite low, lower even than CD-R media. The optics and electronics of a CD rom reader must be able to 'see' the pits recorded onto the media to read it, and the contrast is too low on CD-RW media for some old drives to do it. Even older CD rom drives won't be able to read CD-R media either. Your 44x drive seems to be able to handle CD-RW and CD-R media, it must be of quite recent design.
BTW I have a DVD-video player that also plays audio CD's (actually all such players do) but it won't play CD-R disks! (even though my old portable cd walkman will, and the cd player in my car will also. But these players will probably balk at cd-rw media). SO....only use cd-rw media for stuff you will read back later on the cd-rw burner, and use CD-R media for interchange between machines. >Hi, > I've burned a potato image (disk 2) on a cd-rw >disk. > What cdrecord options should I use in order to >make the disk >readable by olders cdrom drivers (8x, 4x, 16x, etc)? I've tried in a 8x and wasn't able to read even >it works fine on >a 44x one. ===== Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/