On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 04:24 pm, Ashley Karyl wrote:
OK that's fine, but I tend to find that I only burn CD's when they are nearly full if possible and I like to verify them to feel safer. On a 4x burner with close to 700MB of data, each one is going to take almost 40 minutes doing that. If I could burn and verify on a much faster writer that could all be done in around 6 to 8 minutes. This may not seem like a lot when its just one, but when you have to back up data or make a lot of CD's for whatever reason or may even just have a deadline to meet and would appreciate getting a couple of hours sleep that night, that's a great deal of time which can be saved.
Ashley
Dear Ashley
I have never had a full CD take as long as 40 minutes since I bought my first burner 5 years ago. The only real safe way to verify is to open a few images from the disk after putting it a different reader. I have had disks fail which had verified OK in Toast.
You are right to say the cause of failure is most likely to be the disks but it can be from other sources. Burning from one folder is much safer than from several. I have heard that going over 650Mb can cause problems. Also the software you use. One of our newer versions of Toast created a problem which the earlier version did not. It somehow coded the disk differently if burning a folder on an external disk. I daren't think how much it cost in wasted time finding the solution.
Yours
Bob
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