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In article <3fcc76d6$0$14031$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>, 
"Noel Pearson" <noelpear@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>In reference to an earlier post regarding the quality of the latest Verbatim
>CD's I must agree that they are of extremely poor quality. They carry the
>brand name "Verbatim Datalife" (not Datalife Plus).
>I have never had trouble with previous Verbatim disks so I ran a little
>utility called CDR Media Code Identifier 

G'day Noel,
What sort of CD drive were you using?  I see from the note at
<http://www.mscience.com/free.html#CDRID>
that cdrid163 claims to work with SCSI-3 compliant recorders.  
Only SCSI?

>which displays the manufacturing
>company and the dyes used on the disk. Guess what! these new ones are made
>by CMC Magnetics Corp using completely different dyes to the Datalife Plus
>which are made by Mitsubishi Chemicals Corp.
>I used 2 disks out of a box of 10 and decided not to use anymore so I cut my
>losses and bought a 10 pack of TDK dig-it
>disks...........................you know what is coming don't you? Yes, the
>TDK dig-it disks are identical to the Verbatim Datalife, same manufacturer,
>same dye etc. I now have 18 drink coasters.
>Too many cheap and nasty disks on the market because people won't pay a
>little more for quality.


Cheers, Phred.

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