On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > Does anyone know which CDs containing Debian distributions are "gold" > > versus "green" (CD-Rs). My CD-ROM drive does not like CD-Rs very well, and > > I want to make sure I get something I can read reliably. > > > Well, the blanks I have in stock at the moment are gold, but I have used > the green before, with no apparent difficulties or differences.
I have two green CD-Rs which are completely unreadable by my cd-rom. > Does your drive do better with the gold than the green, or is it just > difficult with all CD-Rs? I've never used a gold CD-R so I don't know. > I have, what I consider to be a fairly expensive Philips CD-R and have had > no problems that traced back to the drive as the culprit. I have had my > fair share of corrupted files and the odd CD damaged in shipping, but > nothing drive specific. > What kind of CD-ROM drive do you have, and how is it interfaced? It's a Toshiba 8X IDE CD-ROM. It works perfectly with all my CDs except the two "green" CD-Rs I have. Those two CD-Rs worked perfectly with my old 4X IDE. Any suggestions comments? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
