900 MB CDR's & Lite On 48125s
I bought some 900MB CDR's today. I thought, cool, I'll burn a load of data
on one of those today. Apparently though, my burner can't handle them. Is there someplace out there that I can find out what burners can handle them properly? Thanks, Jon. |
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:34:55 -0000, "Jon"
wrote:: I bought some 900MB CDR's today. I thought, cool, I'll burn a load of data on one of those today. Apparently though, my burner can't handle them. Is there someplace out there that I can find out what burners can handle them properly? Thanks, Jon. Depends on what you mean by "handle" them. The burner can burn them just fine, as can about 90% of the burners ever made, and ALL of the ones in current production. The trick is overburning, and the guestimates I gave in the previous sentence reflect that. Burn the CD in DAO mode (DAO or DAO96) and click past any warnings that might come up about exceeding the disc capacity. The other trick is actually reading the discs back. Sometimes the 90 and 99 minute discs won't even read back on the drive that just successfully burned it -- but will read on another drive. The Liteons usually can are pretty successful at reading back these oddball discs. The drive will make some pretty disturbing noises doing this though, as there will be some read problems, and the head will have to reposition itself a few times to do the read. Because of this, I've pretty much given up on the extended capacity CDs. At this point, if you want high capacity, go for a DVD drive. You can pick up a 2x or 4x DVD+/- burner fairly cheaply now (some are less than $100 Canadian) and the media is dropping in price -- fast. The lowest price I've encountered for media recently is $1.25 Canadian for Ritek 4x discs or $1 for the 1x equivalent. Admittedly not the best discs, but then your 90minute CDs are probably made by them, or Princo anyways. You'll get higher read compatibility for sure. ---------------------------------------- Thanks, MCheu |
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 22:34:55 -0000, "Jon" wrote:
I bought some 900MB CDR's today. I thought, cool, I'll burn a load of data on one of those today. Apparently though, my burner can't handle them. Is there someplace out there that I can find out what burners can handle them properly? Have you try the "overburn" feature in your burning software. -- WebWalker PGP Key ID : 0xB3F1A279 |
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