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you can still use 700mb cd's but only burn 650mb
"atec77>>" <"atec77(nospam)"@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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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
>
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