On Friday, August 6, 2004, at 11:57 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for this info.The CDs and CD-RWs I have are all Staples. Nope,
Do you know that your drive has burned this exact brand/color before? If not, then this is likely the cause of the problem.
With CD-R it is worth it to pay extra for really good disks. They have more/different dyes in them (some disks you can see through! there's so little stuff in there). Plus, your data will last longer, cheap disks, the dye can migrate a lot sooner (scrambling your stuff irretrievably). I pretty much hate -RW, it's made to migrate after all and isn't as stable.
Plus, if you put useful things on the cheap disks, older CD drives and some older audio players will only be able to read the "good" disks, their lasers aren't made for the specs of the cheap disks.
I say this after helping uncountable seminar speakers get their data from generic CD-R(w) disks that couldn't be read on older classroom lecture machines (not mentioning failure to close the session, etc etc other errors).
I bought a bunch of "kodak gold" CDs for the lab years ago and they work everywhere, and I've not lost a disk to corruption yet.
Somewhere on the web is a big lab study about which brands/types of dyes are best for stability. I looked quickly but couldn't find it in 45 seconds ;)
Of course if this media and drive (I forget if it's external but since you say SCSI so I assume) is working fine on your other machines then the media isn't liekly it; perhaps check cables/replace some/ get shorter ones or something.
HTH.
Brian
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