Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated.

From	Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated.
Date	2015-02-15 16:23 +0000
Organization	My Linux Box
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Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:
> I understand that the main issue with +/-RW media is that is *tends*
> to be writer-specific -- that is it reads fine *on the same device*
> as it was burned on, but that there are *sometimes* problems when
> reading them on a *different* device than the original burner device. 
> I *believe* that this is because the 'burns' are not as deep (or
> whatever) as for +/-R media.

The significantly lower reflectivity of the RW media also plays a part
in this.  A "reader" drive that was not designed to operate at the very
low signal level of a RW disk has trouble reading RW media.  This is
pretty much any drive that was not designed to read RW disks from the
start.

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800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. user1 <user1@no-mail-please> - 2014-12-17 23:21 +0000
  Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. Rikishi42 <skunkworks@rikishi42.net> - 2014-12-18 01:17 +0100
    Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-12-17 18:56 -0600
      Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-12-18 08:08 -0600
        Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. user1 <user1@no-mail-please> - 2014-12-21 19:59 +0000
          Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. user1 <user1@no-mail-please> - 2014-12-21 22:23 +0000
            Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-12-21 16:56 -0600
      Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. Rikishi42 <skunkworks@rikishi42.net> - 2014-12-29 21:59 +0100
        Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-12-30 01:42 +0000
          Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. Rikishi42 <skunkworks@rikishi42.net> - 2014-12-30 20:34 +0100
            Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-12-30 15:10 -0600
              Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. Rikishi42 <skunkworks@rikishi42.net> - 2014-12-31 14:05 +0100
                Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-02-15 09:16 -0500
                Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-02-15 09:40 -0600
                Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-02-15 16:23 +0000
  Re: 800/900MB CD burning problem. Help appreciated. Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-12-17 19:42 -0500

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