In your email to me, Chris R. Martin, you wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > 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.
We've had the same problems, and when we switched to the 'blue' CDRs, our problems went away for a lot of the drives. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "What if there were no hypothetical situations?" ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
