I might have missed something in this thread, but here's a data point: I bought an Acer 6206 CD burner several years ago (the manufactured date on my drive is November, 1998). At the time, it came with Easy CD-Creator version 3.something and would only burn up to 650 MB CDs. Later, Easy CD-Creator version 3.5b (IIRC) came out and allowed that same drive to burn 700 MB CDs.
If your drive was manufactured since around that time, I'd dig a little deeper -- maybe all you need is some sort of software upgrade or setting. Randy Kramer On Thursday 17 October 2002 01:10 am, Ron Stodden wrote: > Pierre Fortin wrote: > > Last year, my telco lowered its DSL rates by $10/mo; all of those > > savings went into the Mandrake Club. This time, since it looks > > like I may have to shell out for a new writer*, whatever money is > > spent on it due to Mandrake's choice of ISO size will impact my > > Club level... > > > > * unfortunately, if the specs are still at 650MB, then any product > > is still a risky choice. > > CD technology has always been hard to keep up with. A new drive is > probably only good for 6 months. And now we have obsolescence of > record speed x 2, so what do we do with those earlier x2 CD-RW blanks > we all have? My Plextor 40/12/40 won't write them (cdrecord changes > a speed=2 request to speed=4) but my Sony 10/4/32 will. I will have > to use the x2 blanks for giveaway software, since everyone with > multiread capability (what happened to that organisation and logo?) > should be able to read them. > > It's a difficult situation, but optical technology, while having > enormous potential, is far from stable and mature - and we have > another generstion of incompatibilities (ie more expense on drives) > among optical devices ahead of us as DVDs and DVD writers emerge and > CDs become entirely obsolete (very soon now, I think). So you have > to kind-of wait - there is always something better around the corner. > Prices have been dropping, but even so, the drive makers must be > really raking in the dough.
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