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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:02 +0100, clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
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> Well, I'm using Verbatim media; I'd guess they're pretty common,
Verbatim is usually the safest choice, but even they produce the
occasional bad disc.
> and rated at "56x" (though I guess that's for reading only),
The rating is always for writing.
> so I'd be surprised if the burner wouldn't work with them reasonably
> at least at /some/ speed (I even went as low as 1x, but ironically
> that's when the burner ran into an error GnomeBaker categorized as
> "looks like buffer underrun").
Burn speed can have quite an impact on the stability of the burned data.
Never burn at 56x; personally I would not go over 16x unless I planned to
only use the disc once. However, modern discs and drives generally do not
fare well with the lowest speeds either. Try to find a middle ground, like
8x or 16x depending on the burner; you do not want to push the burner to
its limits either.
> And as for the discs, I had used up half of the cakebox already without
> any trouble.
It is not unheard of to get a few bad ones in a row; it has happened to me
as well. A small hiccup in the manufacturing process probably.
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FE
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