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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: 8 Feb 1996 13:36:12 GMT
- Organization: Field Robotics Center, Carnegie Mellon University
- Message-ID: <4fcu8c$qcm@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
- References: <4fadhf$b33@cujo.icom.ca>
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- In article <4fadhf$b33@cujo.icom.ca>, asimware@icom.ca (Asimware Innovations) writes:
- >In article <4f50r2$s4e@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>,
- >Stan Burton <sburton@frc.ri.cmu.edu> wrote:
- >>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.
- >>>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?
- >
- >What particular software are you using to burn CD32 discs?
- >
- >With our [ ..blatant plug removed.. ] mastering package for the Amiga, we have found
- >that TDK brand discs work the best (for us, at least).
-
- Nice Ad. Given my initial description of the situation, it seems pretty clear
- that the problem has nothing to do with the choice of mastering software. It
- could be a system problem, a CD-R problem, a media problem or a combination
- where the CD-R just works better with some brands of disks.
-
- --
- Stan Burton (CMU/RI/FRC/TUGV) (DND/CRAD/DRES/DTD/MSS/AGCG) sburton@dres.dnd.ca
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