I am using Imation CDR 700/80's. I have always had good burns with them
in the past. At work they have bought some of the gold disks and I have
terrible results with them and will no longer waste my time. I don't
know the material used by Imation.
On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 10:02, Robert Snyder wrote:
> William Coulter wrote:
>
> I think the real question should be what media are you using and then
> what burner. on some machines cd's using a organic based dye do better
> then a syntechic based dye. Example the 3m colors cd-rs are syntechic
> where HP are organic. and so are Vertbatiums. There is a tool for
> windows that tells you the media code and what type of dye is being
> used. I dont know if there is a similar application for linux. I
> usually burn at 32 x and usually dont have a problem . I do also use
> dvd images when available as it saves on cd swaping.
>
> >As I have asked before, what kind of cd burnner do you have?
> >
> >William
> >
> >--- Dean Shepherd <deanthecrabman@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>When I downloaded Mandrake10.0, I could only get a
> >>clean enough copy when I burned at the slowest speed
> >>on my burner(2X). Otherwise, I kept getting corrupted
> >>files.
> >>--- William Coulter <wrcoulter30@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I downloaded FC3 and I had no problems. What kind
> >>>of cd burnner and what kind of cd drive are you
> >>>using? I have had problems with some older cd
> >>>drives. They have a hard time reading the cd's I
> >>>burn.
> >>>
> >>>William
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>--- Larry Brown <larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com>
> >>>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 14:23, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>Has anyone seen this? I have googled and only
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>see complaints about
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>upgrades failing because of this package. I
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>ran the cd tests with
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>positive results at the beginning of the
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>install, when I get to that
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>package it fails saying the file is corrupt.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>I re-downloaded FC3 disk 2
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>and burned it, then replaced the other disk.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>It still gives the same
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>>message. Does anyone know how to get around
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>this?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>Interesting... It took me six burns before I got
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>a disk that passed the
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>initial media check. The first were done at the
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>default 4X. The failed disk 2
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>and disk 3 were reburned at 2X then finally at
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>1X before the media check
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>passed. I guessed that there was some issues
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>with the package being near the
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>end of the list, and being such a large package.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>Dunno.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>BTW, I did have to make a few changes to the
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>/etc/security settings to get
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>Nvidia to work properly.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>Hmmm, maybe I'll try burning it at a slower rate.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>I don't know why the
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>burn rate would be any different from one
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>application to another. It
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>seems to me that if burning at a high rate for FC2
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>shouldn't be any
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>different than FC3. Binary is Binary right? Hmm.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Well, since you
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>ultimately got it to work, I'll try some more.
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >
> >
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