Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:44:50PM +0000, Tim wrote:
> Marc Wilson wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:43:35PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> >>Where did you get 900MiB CD-Rs?
> >
> >
> >Buy them in a store. ^_^ You can get 90 minute and 99 minute discs now
> >The 90's usually work in most drives that you can get to do overburn, but
> >the 99's are VERY twitchy because not only do they use the run-out area,
> >but the spiral is tighter
>
> So I bought 50 of the 99s a year ago, and read an article a week later
> which said they can damage the CDRW drive hardware, and I left them in a
> cupboard. Can I use them after all?
I'd be very surprised if they actually damaged anything. I'd think the
worst you'd get would be that they just didn't work. Articles on
computers (or any other technical field) often receive input from a
lot of non-technical people (which includes the journalists of most
computer magazines) and therefore tend to contain a lot of half-truths
or outright bullshit. It's more reliable to do what you did, and ask
on a medium like this list. Anyone who's blown their drive up with
99-minute CDs will soon tell you.
Where was this article? I could do a plausibility scan on it if you
still have it.
Pigeon
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