more a !that's interesting! than a help or please explain.
while doing a bit of a clean up I came across a half used spindle of
old TDK CD-R with burn speed ratings of 1 to 4 speed (yeh that old! -
about 1998 - they cost me a fortune, I can still remember paying
around $60 for 25 CDs).
Now my Power book has a 8 speed burner... (actually it burns quite a
bit faster than than more like 10 or 12 speed post DVD-R to DVD-RW
flash - go figure?) so I though - give em a go, I've used up all my
new CD's so lets see if these aren't too old.
Burning through iTunes and the finder the burn would start, the disk
would spin up, and there would be a clattering sound then the disk
would be ejected, unburnt, with an error about the drive not being
available/ready.
Setting iTunes burn speed down to 4 didn't solve the problem ether.
I then tried the disk in my LG 42x speed firewired external burner
thinking "well Office works has these on special for $60 so if I
blow it up with an exploding CD it would be worth it just for the
experience and the ha><or s7r337z Kr3d"....
BUT it worked... iTunes was still set to burn at 4 speed so I left
that, just changed the preferred burner and bingo successfully slow
burnt CD's.
My guess is that ether:
1: the way the slot burners work they induce more flutter distortion
on the disk at high speed than tray style burners.
OR
2: even though the burn speed was set low the drive it's self still
spins the disk up to full speed before starting the actual burn.
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ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia.
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