[TriLUG] CD-R problem and blanks for sale.

[Vestal, Roy L.]

I've never had good luck with the el-cheapo brand CD-R or CD-RW media for
data. I've tried them on multiple machines with multiple OS's and burning
software. I stick to the "big" names. Memorex, TDK, Verbatim, and Fuji.
These are the only ones that seem to work for me.

-----Original Message-----
From: M. Mueller (bhu5nji) [mailto:bhu5nji at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 2:17 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] CD-R problem and blanks for sale.




On Friday 15 March 2002 01:51 pm, you wrote:
> I haven't tried them on another system. I did create some audio cds for
> my wife and she hasn't complained, so I'll assume they were error free.
> One of my co-workers bought the cds, so I'm sure I'll find out if
> they're just total crap.
> I used some Memorex disks with my burner and they worked like a champ.
> I'm just chalking it up to random incompatability.

Suspend your chaulk.  I think there is determinism at work here. I've been 
told by sales associates (snickering, like they would know anything) at 
retail outlets that el-cheapo CD are good for music.  For data, I was told, 
you better buy a name brand el-expensivo product (smirk; more expensive is 
good for the store, not me).  In music and video, loss of bits and bytes is 
accounted for and tolerated in the DSP in the D to A direction.  (Who's
going 
to notice Bruce Willis had a 10ms blemish on his forehead from flipped bits 
in an action scene?) In data apps there is 0% margin of error.  I don't know

the ISO9660 protocol, but if there are checksums on datablocks, that could
be 
the reason you are getting coasters from your roaster - bad CRC on read 
verify, or just plain old failed bit-by-bit failure on verify. Your 
experience corresponds with the sales associates' recommendation.  How 'bout

that?  Personally, I chickened out and bought the more expensive CDs, so I 
didn't test the hypothesis above.

Mike M

>
> Ken
>
> On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 04:57, M. Mueller (bhu5nji) wrote:
> > Can you burn the CDs using a completely different system (friend's,
> > employer's)?  Can you make music CDs with them?
> >
> > Mike M
> >
> > On Wednesday 13 March 2002 10:52 pm, you wrote:
> > > I've been going nuts trying to figure out why my burner keeps making
> > > coasters. It seems like it doesn't like the blanks i have. To that
end,
> > > I have 100 blank 80minute 24x CompUSA disks for sale, $10. Your milage
> > > may vary or not. In other words, I don't guarantee that they'll work.
> > > I'll bring them to the meeting tomorrow night if anyone's interested.
> > >
> > > Ken
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