What does CLV and PCAV mean

I don't like top posting, but to fit in with the post....

As the drive does not support 2x (the default speed of low speed CD-RW
media with no speed coding), I would suspect that it does NOT support
low speed (2x / 1-4x ) CD-RW media.
The top CD-RW speed of 24x requires 24x ULTRA media, while the speeds
of 4x to 12x should be usable on High Speed CD-RW media.
16x is an Ultra speed as well,.

If you want to make it external, I'd go for a USB 2 conversion, not
USB1 - the lowesrt CD-R speed is higher than the usable transfer rate
of USB1

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:27:09 +1300, Brian wrote:

Thanks once again people for your help.
Going by the information that I ordinary posted (see below) does it
mean that I can write a CD-R that is within a range of 8x to 48x and
I'm I able to write to a CD-RW that within a range of 4x to 16x or
does the drive only write to CD-RW discs that have a speed rating of
24x

Regards Brian


Brian wrote:

The specs on a CD writer reads
8X, 16X, 24X, 32X, 40X, 48X for CD-R media
4X, 8X, 12X, 16X (CLV) and 24X (PCAV) for CD-RW media.

I have CD-R disks and CD-RW disks that are about 2 years old.
What choice of writing speed do I have?

Regards Brian


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