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- From: sburton@frc.ri.cmu.edu (Stan Burton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.cd32,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Blasted CD-ROMs
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 13:31:14 GMT
- Organization: Field Robotics Center, Carnegie Mellon University
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- In article <4ev5ef$jq8@alterdial.UU.NET>, chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall) writes:
- >Stan Burton (sburton@frc.ri.cmu.edu) wrote:
- >
- >: We have been blasting disks for CD-32s for more than a year now. Our
- >: experience has been that many of the disks do not come out right. Of these,
- >: some are completely unusable and on the others the program on it runs slow
- >: (probably due to retries on file accesses). Currently we are using 6X
- >: qualified disks and still this is happening and it has happened on more
- >: than one CD-R programmer.
- >
- >: Has anyone seen this? Does anyone know anything about this?
- >
- >Much of it could be the brand of CDR blanks you buy. NEVER get Verbatim
- >blanks. It caused our CD32 to spin backwards, really strange!
-
- So what brand of disks did you have the most success with?
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