On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:20:15PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > How slow? I'm actually not sure, because I didn't buy the computer. Is there some way to tell how fast Debian thinks it is? But 2x, maybe 4x at most would be my guess. > I used to have problems reading some (not all) CD-Rs with my old 2x > cdrom. The problem was just that the drive was not designed to read > those CDs -- it was just too old. I suspect that the varying amounts of > success I had (ie some CDRs worked, others didn't) was due to the dye > types used in the different CDRs. I never worked out which dyes were > better than others. Now I have a cdrom that reads everything (including > CDRWs) so there's no problem. Well, as it happens, the CDR that works (the Debian one) and the CDRs that don't (the MP3 M$ formatted ones) are the same dye type -- in fact, they are from the same box. Also, the fact that I can get varying amounts of data off the CD seems to further discredit this theory. Why should I be able to read some of it, and not other parts? Of course, I know next to nothing about CDs, CDRs, and the like... -- Alexander Poquet | We leave the obvious generalizations to the atpoquet@ucdavis.edu | reader. -- Israel Herstein Use of PGP preferable in reply | Use Linux!
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