Re: Apple Legacy Recovery CD

Ed Eastman <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What I (think I) Know about CDs...
>
> From all I have read, CD drives, CDR drives and CDRW drive all use
> different technologys. Most of the incompatibility of newer media is due
> to rotational velocity during a burn and color of the dye.

The discs are physically different. Some older CD-ROM drives and CD
players had trouble with CD-RW, because the overall reflectivity is lower.
Some DVD players have trouble with CD-R for similar reasons.

> So when I burn a disk for another computer especially when it is for
> Win98, I always burn it at the slowest speed I can which is 8x.
>
> If I expect my oldest drive to read it I use my slowest burner, gold
> disks and and write mode of disk at once and never multi-sessioned.

Write speed can be important, but the optimal write speed isn't
necessarily slower. The "best" speed depends on your recorder and your
choice of media.

Writing in disc-at-once mode on CD-R media is your best bet for
compatibility. Using packet writing on CD-RW (i.e. treating the disc
like a big floppy) is a recipe for trouble.

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