A friend and I burned a cd on a memorex disk (CDR) on his machine and it could not be read on his second drive, his wifes machine or my laptop. We then burned a generic disk and it could be read on his other drive, his wifes and my laptop. With that, I will not buy Memorex disks for my self.
Keith Thompson Peter Kaulback wrote: > > Some cdrw discs manufactured by Memorex in particular, my burner will not > even see. In effect they fail to exist. What drives do you have, they may > only need their firmware to be updated. > > Peter Kaulback > > In the hour of 11:11 AM 6/22/2002 -0700, Carol Warman spoke this: > > >Gerry: > > > >Thanks for the reply and for the valuable links. > > > >Would you know whether a CD RW drive manufactured 1-2 years ago (the age of > >the two machines in question) would have a problem in writing a 700 MB disc? > >I'm interested in tracking down the reason that the 650 MB media worked > >flawlessly and the 700 MB did not. Any thoughts? > > > >Thanks. > > > >Carol Warman > >Computers Were Us, Inc. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >___________________________________________________ > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > >Behalf Of Gerald E. Boyd > >Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 8:22 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: PCWorks: 700 MB versus 650 MB CDRW? > > > > > >At 07:41 PM 6/21/02 -0700, Carol Warman wrote the following: > > > > >Could someone please explain the difference (other than the obvious > > >capacity) of a 700 MB CDRW versus a 650 MB CDRW. I am asking because we > > >helped a client back up his files today and both of his CDRW drives (in two > > >separate machines) would not recognize this media. Once we inserted a 650 > >MB > > >CD, both drives recognized the media and the copying worked fine. I am used > > >to working with the 650 MB media and the 700 is new to me. > > > >Early CD drives hold about 74 minutes of audio, or about 650MB of data. > >Later models hold about 80 minutes of audio, or about 700MB of data. > > > >The change came about because of all the audio fans "overburning" the > >original CD (circa 1997) to achieve longer play times. Hence, the > >manufacturers just started making the newer sizes. > > > >For more info, see the CD-R FAQ (start at section 7-6) > >http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq01.html > > > >-- > >Gerry Boyd -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson Help Page: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ People with dogs are too cowardly to bite for themselves. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
