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Phred wrote:
> In article <3FE46E79.20B51517@teleport.com>, 
> ms<msa@nospa.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>>In the CDRW format, have you used Imation disks and results? I have had
>>good results with Imation CDR disks, have but not tried yet same in
>>rewritable format.
> 
> 
> I've been using Imation CD_RW for routine daily backup for a couple of 
> years without problems.  One disk lasts about 6 months to a year 
> before it's full, so only gets written about 20 to 50 times before 
> it's "retired" as I have one for each day of the week (and always copy 
> "yesterday" and "today" [ using good old XCOPY /s/d  ;-) ] so I end up 
> with two copies of everything).  Also been using those Imation CD_RWs 
> for my "Monthly" backups.  So that's now another couple of dozen.
> 
> All that said, I've recently switched to Imation CDRs formatted for 
> "drag and drop" etc. from Windows/DOS stuff as someone in one of the 
> cdrom newsgroups must have convinced me that was a more reliable way 
> to go.  8-)  The main problem with this is that these CDRs can't be 
> read on other machines that don't have appropriate software installed 
> whereas the CD_RWs can be.

My error messages and failed formats were on a Plextor. The error 
messages occured when I tried to erase the CDRW and then rewrite on 
them more than two or three times. I contacted my computer vendor and 
they sent me a newer model replacement Plextor. It failed miserably 
also. Are you sure you're refering to using CDRWs with a UDF format? 
At the best, I was never able to successfully UDF format more than 4 
out of a five pack, and usually the number was less. Much less 
actually copy something to them. Then, when I actually DO succeed in 
copying something to them, when I later try to access the data, there 
is often a "read failure".

I stand by my assessement and recommendation to use only CDR and ISO, 
but of course YMMV.

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Regards from John Corliss
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