Hi All, Well from what i understand there are only 8 main cd media manufacturers (i might be wrong),
But obviously the different burn speeds mean different types of media, a good way find out whats good is run a cdmeda identifier which tells you what factory the media came from and the polimer used, so after a while you can find that media made from a plant/polimer is good for you, i.e. 4x (650mb) imation is not the same as 24x speed (700mb) imation. A excellent resource in the net on this matter is www.cdmediaworld.com. Good site, absolutly everything to do with CDR's and Writers. I have tend to have the most trouble with Mega data, TDK (650mb), Mr Data and, Transsonic (650mb). When i mean trouble i mean, that they burn fine but they tend to stop being bootable/or older cdrom's gave trouble reading them. C Mahesh > Speaking of CD quality, does anyone know where I > could buy kodak gold > > discs that have no jewel case? I never use the > cases, so I'd prefer not > > From a friend who has researched this: Kodak no > longer makes the gold, > they're now covered with some die (probably then > looking blue). Kodak > are good quality, but are the most sensitive to > laser writing power > (due to their gold layer I think it was). > > Other good brands are TDK and (I forgot). The TDK > have a much higher > range of laser writing power. > > Dick Smith may have some packs of 11 with anti-dust > pocket TDK for 14.95 > left (not in Riccarton). > > Low quality brands are imation, verbatim, and he > mentioned a few others > which I'd have to ask him again for. > > Volker ===== For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz/linux http://briefcase.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Briefcase - Manage your files online.
