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Article #131Re: Problem with 700M CD's
From: atec77>>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:37
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:37
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our local Kmart has 650 meg blanks on special for 29 cents Anthony Clark wrote: > > Hello everyone > > I'm a computer technician at a high school, and we have some older CD > ROM's which are not able to read the newer 700MB burned CD's, but will > read the older 650MB ones with no problem. The trouble is most if not > all manufacturers no longer make the 650MB type. > > Does anyone know of a manufacturer which still makes the 650MB type? > > Has anyone else encountered this problem, and found a solution for it? > The CD ROM's are Diamond Data 8X. > > It just occured to me that maybe the difference between the 'audio' CD's > and the 'data' ones, could be that the audio ones are the older 650MB > type, so that older audio CD ROM's can read them. Does anyone know if > I'm right? As far as I can see, data is just data, and it shouldn't > matter to the CD whether the data is musical data or not, so I can't see > what other difference there could be between the audio and data types. > > Alternatively, is there some nice person (in Australia) who has a few > dozen blank 650MB CD's, that they would be willing to swap for the same > number of 700MB ones? Any write speed of at least 2x will be fine. > > Please email me at ajclark@NOSPAM.senet.com.au (without the nospam) if > you have any ideas / suggestions, as I rarely check this group. > > Anthony -- Unix Rules... help your mates and introduce them.
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