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Larry, I hate doing this but… I have two favorite drives right now but we are now testing the new SONY so I may change my mind in a week or two 🙂 The Philips CDD 522 and Kodak PCD 225. They are basically the same drive. Kodak added the…
Kevin, We have used only one card on most of our machines for some time now but they are all AV drives connected to our CDR 100's. Also the slowest machine connected to a CDR 100 is a P75 and we still don't have an easy time with burning on…
Georges, I probably will make 10-20 per month, all windows no mac. Would like to use for music in the future as well. the music is just for 1 disk fun stuff. Thanks for your help. Larry
Hi, Scott I'd appreciated if you could see me some info on your findings…… Thanks….
>>PMFJI, I think Dana's keyboard burped
>> What's your opinion – would we have better luck using 63 minute discs than 74 minute ones? Or will the same problems crop up, regardless of media type? The outer portion of the disc is the hardest to mold and the hardest to read. I'm not sure if this…
Hi, Dana (or lurkers), We have experienced the problems described in this thread on Mitsumi and NEC drives, too. I don't feel so alone now! What's your opinion – would we have better luck using 63 minute discs than 74 minute ones? Or will the same problems crop up, regardless…
>>Unfortunately, we want our customers to be able to read CD-R disks, and they >>have these and many other types of CD-R drives. We cannot change what drives >>Dell, Gateway, and everybody else happens to sell. So, we need reliable CD-R >>technology. Blame the CD-R drives, but they work just…
David, First I personally find your language offensive and uncalled for. I expect it on the Internet but not on CIS where I pay good money. Second, I find your total lack of respect for someone who _was_ trying to help you to be very annoying. You may need help…
Poor language
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Kathy, > Yup. Guess it ain't always d'bestest way 'o teachin folks how t' tawlk but's the way I learnt it.
>> but with the CDR 100 you will be stuck buying a new HD that you may or may not need. Will adding a SCSI 1 Gig hard drive to the same controller bus as a Yamaha CD100 work? In other words, will one be able to write a 650…
>>Are any of you familiar with the DCA Verification System (Doug Carson & Associates I believe)? Is a Compare issued through a premastering software as comprehensive as this type of disc check? Apparently, the DCA test will regenerate the EDC and ECC. Is this dependent on the CD writer that…
>> run the thing under water (unplugged of course:-) wait for it to dry…. it worked
>> . .is there a way to make direct digital trasnfers of DAT to CD?
#CD-R VerificationEDC/ECC
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Are any of you familiar with the DCA Verification System (Doug Carson & Associates I believe)? Is a Compare issued through a premastering software as comprehensive as this type of disc check? Apparently, the DCA test will regenerate the EDC and ECC. Is this dependent on the CD writer that…
I'm the first to agree that it all _should_ work, and that the problem is growing more serious as CD-R discs become more common, and more people are discovering what their CD-ROM drives can't do. As you say, the problem is even more frustrating because the problems people have seem…
David, the fact that the Mitsumi drives have problems reading CD-R disks doesn't mean they are not able reading them at all. We discovered that the critical step is the mounting process of the disk. So if the Mitsumi drives reports 'no disk' or something like that, opening and closing…
Davis – Thanks for the info – pls fax any info you have to: 011-81-827-21-7363 MCAS in Iwakuni, Japan Best Regards, Randy Lopez MIS – Director Morale, Recreation and Wrlfare (MWR)
Thanks much – Cathy – I'll head over to Folio Land…..
Thanks for the information. I'll check. The panasonic is a "563" I think. Doesn't using a "proven reliable" drive somewhat defeat the utility of CD-R disks? I mean, what good are they if they only work sometimes. It may be the fault of the drive manufacturers, but that doesn't matter…
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Smart and Friendly now has a section in the CDVENB forum. Just GO SMART to get there. Looking forward to see you all there. Michael Forman Smart and Friendly
thanks for your info Gav
Dear David, _Which_ Sony and Panasonic drives did you test on, and what software are you using to verify? My database contains trouble reports on Sony 33As and 55Es, and on an unspecified model of Panasonic. Again, try to borrow a proven reliable drive from someone and test on that.…
By force of numbers, you're right that it's more our problem than theirs. And up till now we've seen exactly that attitude on the part of a number of CD-ROm drive manufacturers. Unfortunately, there's nothing that those of us who "make" gold discs, from the CD recorder or mastering software…
Neil, The 610CT is not a successor for the T2150. The 610CT has no internal CD and is a 90 MHz Pentium. The 610T is a notebook PC. The T2150CDT is a laptop. T2150CDT CPU 486 DX4/75 Screen 10.4" diag TFT 640x480xx64k on panel and simultaneous to external If AC…
Thanks that's good information to have at hand. ..Carl
David, >>I call it like I see it. Perhaps you need new glasses. Your response to Dana's helpful suggestions (which were repetitious only because you didn't seem to catch the drift of the information you were give by her and others) was insulting and uncalled for. You owe Dana and…
Understood. thanks for the info.
I will go look for the file… so I can get up to speed 😉 Georges
You seem to have a very serious problem. The folks on this forum are usually willing to help and have solved problems for many others. However, your response to Ms. Parker makes it unlikely that others will try to help you lest they be subject to the same rude attitude.…
> Wish I'd read that article. I took mine apart and cleaned it with alcohol > and canned air…it didn't work. Alcohol shouldn't be wasted by cleaning keyboards 🙂 Peter
David, Your suggestion might work for some programs, but many S&R products have very picky requirements for storing their applications to CDROM if you plan to run from the disc. Spira may work well as a premastering tool if the developer follows the right steps for publishing, but please don't…
And, we are following up on this with great haste. It neither settles the problem of how all of those people out there with Mitsumi drives will be able to read CD-R disks nor does it really settle this. It is but one theory about what is happening. We have…
John, Even your 8mm tape is really going to deteriorate after 5-7 years — it's just the nature of the material. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to re-record them every 4-5 years to be safe, and I believe it's recommended that you retension them at least once a…
Bob, Good idea — I'll ask Allen about it next time I talk to him. Kathy
Bob — I don't remember saying anything about Marantz — must have been Scott masquerading as me in the TOOCDS account again 😉 Kathy
Jerry, That's too bad — you must have attended a school with English teachers not trained in linguistics, but rather in "traditional" English grammar. Grammarians are easily spotted because they are always telling people how they "should" use language (the prescriptive school) rather than describing how language is actually used…
Walter, I've only written normal computer data. I've had some bad luck with their "virtual image" system, so I always make an ISO image first, and that process runs disappointingly slowly – far below the native transfer rate of the hard drive – and you have to stand by the…
Katherine, Thanks for the sage words about CD-R media stability. We expect to archive some test data, and might actually need to dig some of it and take a look at it after ten or fifteen years. It sound like CD-R's will 'way outlast 9-track tape, but 8mm tape looks…
G,D&R=Grin, duck, and run. There's a comprehensive list of online acronyms and emoticons (like ;->) in the library of the Writer's forum.
>> I read an article someplace that told me I could run the thing under water (unplugged of course:-) wait for it to dry…. it worked Wish I'd read that article. I took mine apart and cleaned it with alcohol and canned air…it didn't work.
In big issue is system configuration. With the Yamaha you will need a system that can feed the data at 4X in to a 640K buffer. With the Kodak you start with a 2MB buffer can expand to 32MB. So price is not just recorder price.>>> Actually the CDR 100…
It is so hard to recomend drives these days…. How many discs will you be making? How many each time? How many copies of each disc? What is the host system? Do you see Mac or hybrid discs in your future? Cheers, Georges CD Archive, Inc. http://www.cdarchive.com
>>The degree of technicality that you bring to this discussion clearly demonstrate your ability to test people for driving licenses. As to helping solve a fery difficult, costly, and frustrating problem I have no evidence to indicate that you have much qualification. You have been informed by not only me,…
You are twisting words. We don't seem to know what or where things are working. As for 25% or 8%, even this is unclear–even after testing many hundreds of disks. Sometimes a disk will work and a moment later it will not work. So, does it count as a working…
>> if I remember right there's a recommendation in the yellow book saying there shall be only one mode 1 track on a CD. >>So if drives do not read mode 1 multisession disks they are completely according to the standard following even all the recommendations. As I said, there…
Dana, >> If this were not so, we would not have multiple speed drives, multisession drives that only read XA sessions
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