RadioBanter - View Single Post - Any CDR's known to work with old CD drives???

January 16th 06, 03:49 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew

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Gudmundur wrote:
Hi folks,

Problem is this, My old Panasonic CF-41 laptop works great with
my GPS/APRS goodies, but the internal cd drive doesn't seem to
want to read CDR's. This was a common problem with older 4x and
slower drives. I suspect the internal drive is a 4 speed and working
to original specs perfectly.

Have you found any CDR's that consistantly seem to work with old
drives?

I can't say 100%, but I've had good luck with the following techniques:

Sorry I did not explain better my meaning. This unit does not 'burn'
cd's at all, and I wasn't looking to do that. I have burned the CDR's
on my big computer and want to read them on the laptop, and the laptop
refuses to see most CDR's. It seems to read some of my older sony cdr's
however. They are shiney silver color, and it would make sense that
those are readable. Burning at 1X on my big computer seems to help.
The CDR's made on the big computer are 'good' if you want to say that
as everyone else with 8X or faster drives can read them fine.

Just looking for a more easily 'readable' CDR that my old laptop
may find easier to deal with. The laptop reads store bought 'master'
CD's just fine, music or data, it's the less reflective CDR surface
that trip this thing up.