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<<DP: You need reliable CD-ROM drives, too. Conversely, you could blame the CD-R discs, but by your own account, they work just fine in other CD-ROM drives.<g>>> >>DK: NO. That is not true. We have no evidence that the CD-ROM disks that we are burning work reliably in other drives. We only know now that they don't work in Mitsumi drives.<< I was referring to your earlier message: >>We are having a very similar experience. We have a lot of Mitsumi drives and they have a lot of troubles with CD-R disks. (Gold dye…Plasmon 4101 recorder.) ***>>A disk will read on one drive and then not read on another. It's very erratic.*** >>We have several dozen Mitsumi drives (Came with the Dell Computers) and they just are weird. >>We are very scared since we are presently burning about 50 CD-R disks per day and based upon checking them on the Mitsumi drives about 10% of the disks are unreadable.<< (In another message, the figure you gave was 8%.) So 90% of the discs work on Mitsumi drives, right? If the discs work on Mitsumi drives 90% of the time, either you've got a bad batch of media, or you've got unreliable drives. If a disc reads on one drive and not another, it's the drive, not the media, that is unreliable.