>>Plextor 8x
Thanks, ZP, very informative. Dampens my childish enthusiasm somewhat, which, at my age, is a healthy thing I think. More watching is in order, especially since my 2x chugs along in the background while I play Battle Commander ... <g>
Overburn, yes, it's a royal pain in the gazpacho if you've put 73'48" of music on your 74' CD and the *&^%** writer won't close the disk. There's a bit of practical leeway for that even though it's out of spec, I understand, and most writers will do that. My 2x won't reliably -- burned my first coster with the adaptec software tody that way. Disk burned flawlessly but I couldn't close the sucker. Claimed it closed on the second try, there's no second try on a CD-R.
It upsets my CDRom drives no end. Kind of funny, actually. I have this ancient 2x Toshiba with carrier that I use mostly for audio. Put the coaster in and 20 seconds later the carrier came flying out like the drive had indigestion. Haw. Drive can't take Johnny Cash ... <gg>. Neither can I past a certain point.
Burned perfectly second time around, closed and all, so I fed the Toshiba Folsom Prison Blues for misbehaving ... |