[expert] burning CDs

[S. Newhouse]

John Aldrich writes:
 > I have a 4x4x16 CDRW. I burned a whole bunch of Mandrake
 > 7.02 CDs and gave 'em out. Now I'm starting to get reports
 > back that they don't work. I used XCDRoast to burn 'em and
 > I verified most of 'em, and there were no errors reported
 > when burning or when checking.
 > Any ideas? 
I always burn at 4x, no problems yet.  I usually use cdrecord
directly.  Simple command line use. Examples are in the man page. 
I had problems with Xcdroast.  

What do they mean by 'they don't work.'? 

-sen

I burned at full 4x speed, and some people have
 > told me they typically burn at half the maximum speed.
 > Would that help, do you think?
 > BTW, I'm using the version of XCDRoast that came with
 > Mandrake 6.0, so this is BARELY on topic <G>
 >      John