On 23 Sep 2005 at 19:18, Aditya Mishra wrote:
> I have come across a new CDRW that gave errors when doing full erase but did
> not give any error in quick erase.
> I have never seen such behavior before.
I have, and it makes sense: if there's a bad place on the disk, the
'quick erase' just puts an empty directory structure at the beginning of
the disk, and so won't see it, but a 'full erase' will try to touch the
entire disk, and so run across anything that's amiss...
> Is there any way to make sure you CDR media specially non-rewritable to make
> sure that it will actually be readable or
> writable?
> I do know Nero and some other programs have an option to verify written data
> but how dependable is that?
I use Nero and all I can say is:
1) I have _never_ had a disk that was written and verified subsequently
show up as unreadable, and
2) I have had lots of CDRW disks that wouldn't 'verify' and *NOTHING* I
could with any tool on any system [including low-level stuff from the
command line on a Linux system] could get them to behave [so I concluded
that the disks were truly dead, and just chucked them].
So I have experience both positive and negative with the 'verify'
machinery in Nero and have never had a problem with a 'false' report
either way, so I'm convinced...:o)
/Bernie\
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