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#118321-Mitsumi Problem
Message #118382
Thank you for your reply. It was very interesting! We were very careful to be certain that all of the disks we used for this project were the very same brand and batch. Verbatim, the manufacturer, has received several of the bad disks and is doing a careful analysis of…
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#Look for a unit
Message #118380
Been looking over some of the threads concerning CD Mastering unit for purchase for my own company. In the past I have used a CDD521 { non upgraded } with CDGEN and CDWRITE { dos based versions }. I am wondering if any one has the info on the following…
#118262-Pinnacle CD-R
Message #118379
>>PMFJI means "Pardon Me For Jumping In"
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#118371-Phillips ISO9660 no read
Message #118376
Richard, I'd hand the disc back if I were you — without some basic information such as software, writer, procedures, etc. there's no reasonable way to diagnose the problem. It's tricky enough to find out what's wrong when you know all the variables! Kathy
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#118239-#Mitsumi Problem
Message #118372
David, I heard recently of a company that was having intermittent problems with the CD-Rs they were making. It was driving them nuts. Turns out that their building was near an airport and under the flight path for landing jets. When a jet was coming in, it created enough vibration…
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#118369-#Phillips ISO9660 no read
Message #118371
Thanks for the forgiveness, can you give me clue as to where to look for an answer for my problem. I don't know who's software was used or anything other than they handed me a disk and said make it work. Bet you never heard that before. RS
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#118331-Phillips ISO9660 no read
Message #118370
I don't know what software was used, the disk was given to us by a client. Were a photo lab with digital capablities. However I'm no dumby I just don't know to much about the task of making CD's rerecordable or otherwise. Richard Shields CNA, MIS
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#118366-#Phillips ISO9660 no read
Message #118369
Sounds like someone trying to pass the buck… Philips makes good equipment, and even their less expensive OEM'd writers are not "cheap" in any sense of the word. But since you're going on hearsay, we'll forgive you Kathy
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#118356-#Phillips ISO9660 no read
Message #118366
Didn't mean to offend anyone, that was the term that was used to tell me about the problem. Cheap meaning that it was only capable of single session writes I guess. I'm a Netware CNA and a System Analyst not a mind reader. RS
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#118100-Backup – Recordable CD
Message #118358
This Spira software sounds excellent! You need to advertise more before Corel or someone does the same thing. I need this software right away (CD Creator doesn't work for backups), so I'm going to look in the library and see if I can find Monikers number. Dean
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#118301-#Phillips ISO9660 no read
Message #118356
Richard, Where did you get a "cheap" Philips recorder? Didn't know they made such… Kathy
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#118303-One-off Serv. in Mexico?
Message #118355
Agustin, I don't know if they still do this, but try: Grupo Barak, S.A. de C.V. Rio Consulado 517 Col. Atlampa Nonoalco Mexcio City, 06450 Mexico, D.F. C.P. 525 541-3150 fax 525 541-4193 Good luck! Kathy
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#118322-CD-R adjustment
Message #118352
Deirdre', Unless you want to include the Texel drives (now Plextor) in that group. I have had to had Texel drives fixed and they still don't work….no trouble with the 4Plex however. Jerry Warner CD Solutions, Inc.
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#118284-Cassette Recording to CD
Message #118350
Mike, It's the clean up that I'm talking about. It's not so hard to make a CD from some tape but if you want anything even remotely close to CD quality then you need the items I mentioned and it's not cheap. I had a tape which I needed to…
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#118323-Archival life – CD-R
Message #118346
>>How about books? They require more care than CDs, but at least they can be read back by anyone literate in the language, no special equipment required and no standards to meet. Some are still being read centuries later. Perhaps I should have specified _electronic_ medium.
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#118308-Mitsumi Problem
Message #118343
>>This makes me wonder if this mess is a driver problem as opposed to a hardware problem. More likely a combination. A driver can't improve the error correction firmware. Win95 effectively rewrote all of the drivers for the most popular drives, rather than use the drivers supplied by the manufacturers,…
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#118253-Testing before Writing
Message #118340
John, Just an observation here. Recording speed has _nothing_ to do with playback speed so there is no advantage to checking recording speeds to figure out what compression ratio you'll be using. Recording speed and playback speed are independent of each other. BTW, if you (or your client) like we…
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#118238-#Mitsumi Problem
Message #118339
David, Not CIS rules you don't. They prohibit profanity and you clearly didn't follow that rule. No. _YOU_ are missing the big picture here. There are professional people here who were trying to help you and you started throwing insults around and swearing at people then wondering why you weren't…
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#118301-#Phillips ISO9660 no read
Message #118331
Hi Richard, The one you should be talking to is your software vendor? Who's software are you using? Someone can help you. Correl, Incat, Elektroson, C-Quadraat and Moniker are all frequent visitors to the forum. To me it sounds like a ISO9660 conflict. It could be that either you used…
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#118253-Testing before Writing
Message #118329
Hi John, To tell you the truth, the best way to test is to actually burn a CD! There is no better solution. You can have it done by any One-Off-Shop (Jerry, Kathy?). The major advantage is that you can test it on a number of different CD-ROM players on…
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#118251-#Help – can't burn
Message #118328
Hi Thomas, When you have two SCSI host adapters, you must specify which on eyou are using. This can be done by editing the 'HostAdapterNumber' entry in the cd-recording section of the gear.ini file. This is the unique number ASPI gives your host adapter. Default is 1. Change it to…
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#118253-#Testing before Writing
Message #118327
John, what you want to do can be achieved by simulating a CD using the CD Emulator driver of WinOnCD ToGo!. This will allow you to build up your CD like you would when burning a CD. Instead of writing a disc you can then use the Preview facility. This…
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#118301-Phillips ISO9660 no read
Message #118324
What kind of CD-ROM drive are you using to try to read them? Deirdre' Straughan Incat Systems
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#118288-#CD-R adjustment
Message #118322
I'm willing to bet that no one's ever had to send in a Plextor drive for that kind of adjustment… Maybe we'd better ask someone else. Best, Deirdre'
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#118309-#Mitsumi Problem
Message #118321
I've also heard of entire batches of "bad" media in which there were random failures of a number of discs in the batch. It would give us more data if you could try a couple of discs from a completely different brand and/or batch. Ciao, D'
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#117815-Yamaha vs. Kodak 522
Message #118314
The only reason to buy a Yamaha 4X recorder over the Kodak or Philips (or Pinnacle Micro, etc.) 2X is if writing a disc in 15 minutes is worthwhile. The Kodak (an OEM Philips) writes just fine in 30 minutes (plus or minus three minutes) a complpetely full disc. (See…
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#118224-#Mitsumi Problem
Message #118308
Hi, Dana, >>The outer portion of the disc is the hardest to mold and the hardest to read. In the errors that I'm getting, they are never just from the outer tracks of the CD-ROM, they're all over the place. Usually, they manifest as File Mangler having trouble reading the…
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#118302-#Archival life – CD-R
Message #118304
>>Thanks for the reply, but it was actually Scott Bracken who wrote the message you replied to. In one day's use of the One-Off CD Shop's account I used to use he managed to confuse at least three or four people . Oh, darn. I just went back to the…
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#One-off Serv. in Mexico?
Message #118303
I am looking for any company in Mexico where I can have made a single CD-R. Does anybody knows of any place ?? Agustin Farias San Cristobal, Mex.
#118294-#Archival life – CD-R
Message #118302
Dana, Thanks for the reply, but it was actually Scott Bracken who wrote the message you replied to. In one day's use of the One-Off CD Shop's account I used to use he managed to confuse at least three or four people . However, since I'm here anyway…. >>3M, who…
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#Phillips ISO9660 no read
Message #118301
I have a CD burnt on a cheap Phillips CDROM burner that I can't read on my machine. I can see the files in file manager but I can't copy them. It says that the path is not valid???? But I can see them listed. The files are TIF files…
#Archival life – CD-R
Message #118294
>>While everyone's seem to have heard of Kodak's (gold dye) guarentee of 100 years life, I'd be interested to see where the mere 20 years on cyanine (green dye) for archival came up? I think I've found at least one source for this idea: Mitsui Toatsu's marketing literature states: "The…
#CD-R adjustment
Message #118288
Felix, Awhile back we had some discussions here regarding what adjustments they make to drives to assure they read CD-R discs properly given the various characteristics of various types of CD-R media. Can you enlighten us on what happens when someone sends their drive in to you for this type…
#117755-#Cassette Recording to CD
Message #118284
" It's not an easy or cheap process and requires some pretty expensive sound cards and editing software." Jerry, Just did a polka and waltz CD for my Dad, with my 10 year old cassette tape deck, TB Multisound, Wave Light and my CDD 521. Not so hard, wish I…
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#118251-Help – can't burn
Message #118273
Thomas, What you are describing sounds to me like a SCSI device ID conflict. What kind of SCSI adapter are you using, and what software drivers? Adaptec has something called EZSCSI that takes a lot of the guesswork out of configuring your SCSI chain. Kathy
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CheckCD
Message #118268
Dear Monika, does Check CD only work with particular SCSI buses or something? I tried running it on my Compaq Pentium today, which has a PCI SCSI bus that nothing gets along with, and it kept insisting there was no disc installed. Looks like a nice utility in any case!…
#118239-Mitsumi Problem
Message #118266
>>First of all, thanks for the great information in your posting! Yes, isn't it amazing what good information one can get when one asks with a modicum of courtesy?
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#118238-Mitsumi Problem
Message #118264
>>As for being open minded: I listen and I try to be reasonable. Out of all the nonsense in your message, this leapt out at me. You "listen" and "try to be reasonable". If you listened – in this case, read – you would know that I am a woman…
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#118228-#Pinnacle CD-R
Message #118262
(Here we go again) PMFJI means "Pardon Me For Jumping In". Alternatively, PMJI means "Pardon My Jumping In". Both initializations are used online when someone "jumps in" to a conversation between two other people.
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#Testing before Writing
Message #118253
Hi Have a Client who wishes to make their own CDs, nothing complex, just a few files (Acrobat reader and .pdf). Before they commit to buying a device, I would like to test the speed they would get at single,double,quad etc. so I can set the compression ratios accordingly. Is…
#Help – can't burn
Message #118251
Help! We're trying to write CD-ROMS on Philips CDD 521 CD recorder, using Gearxpress for Windows. The CD recorder works fine when attached to a Mac, but when trying to write CDs from a PC everything fails. The PC is equipped with to SCSI adapters. When connected to an SCSI…
#118237-Mitsumi Problem
Message #118247
How? An Optimum Power Calibration is performed for each disc by the CD recorder, within a recommended range set by the disc's manufacturer and coded into the disc itself for the recorder to read (if I have understood the standard correctly). This is done according to the standards and we…
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#118236-#Mitsumi Problem
Message #118246
Dear David, Can you find any factor in which discs are read and which not? Different media? More or less data on the disc? I've seen some statements that some Mitsumis have particular problems reading "near the edge." Thx, D'
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#118218-Mitsumi Problem
Message #118240
We have found that some disks consistently do not read on the Mitsumi drives while other disks consistently do read. Then, there are the "maybe" disks that sometimes read and sometimes do not read. This is why I wonder if the problem is the media. After all, how can it…
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#118217-#Mitsumi Problem
Message #118238
We all pay good money. I follow the rules. Sorry if I cannot guess what you like and dont. You are missing the big picture here. I was trying to explain that we have this serious problem. The problem results in a number of our disks being unreadable. Some tests…
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#118197-#Mitsumi Problem
Message #118237
Kinda true. But if the problem is a "calibration" one then you can get involved. It is odd that some of the disks never read in Mitsumi drives, other specific disks always read on all drives, and then there are a bunch in the middle. If the problem is strictly…
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