John Whittingham wrote:
And, where does one learn about that? Trial and error is expensive!
I would suggest some internet based research, Google search engine would make a reasonable starting point.
John
Been there, done that, John.
It's an absolute morass of disconnected bits and pieces of information, most
written and compiled by the manufacturers of the discs themselves.
There are apparently so many standards that apply to the manufacture for the
various uses for CDs, there's little adherance to a "standard" that we can use to
purchase general purpose discs.
One person's general purpose is NOT some other person's general purpose.
One wants his CDs only for recording music, and never even considers it for
anything else. Why would he need a "data disc?"
I've successfully recorded data (H.D. backup, for instance) on CDs, using an
external CD/RW drive, which I cannot even get my new CD reader (in my new
G4) to even recognize as a CD!
That's not fair!
Why should one CD reader/writer perform it's actions in such a way that someone
else's reader/writer won't even recognize? I use all of my CDs for data recording,
period.
Take one from one machine and pass it to another machine, and the new drive
doesn't even recognize that I put a disc in it!
That part of the industry is all screwed up, as far as this consumer is concerned...
Each vendor seemingly has a different way of doing things. That's got to stop!
keith whaley
