Hi
I just put one of the el-cheapo CDs into the drive, and cdrecord says Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 7 Manufacturer: GIGASTORAGE CORPORATION Phthalocyanine sounds quite toxic to me... And what is "Short strategy type" anyway? Have I overlooked this before with the other CD-Rs I have used so far? Someone here recently mentioned getting quite a bit more capacity than nominal on these. So I tried to put 719 MB on it with overburn on a HP CD-Writer 8200+, and it went all right up to 702 MB and then stopped with Track 01: 702 of 719 MB written (fifo 98%).cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error ... write track data: error after 736905216 bytes I checked the CD with diff, and there are some files missing - of course - but the rest is ok. BTW, CD writing works pretty well on my old 486DX2-66, even when I work with StarOffice and other resource-gobbling stuff simultaneously. So far I have not had a single bad CD among the some 100 or so I have done. I always burn with nice -n -17 (minus (!) seventeen). I have a separate IDE HD for the CD image, and never tried burning on the fly. Regards, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------+
