From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 24 1: 9: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 517B037B408 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 01:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 70563 invoked by uid 100); 24 Sep 2001 08:09:00 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15278.59932.232663.518856@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:09:00 -0500 To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] percentage of bad blanks when burning CDs In-Reply-To: <52455162@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran types: > This is a little off topic ... > I recently bought a 30 pack of Memorex write-once CD blanks. > So far, I've burnt about ten of them, and I've had 2 blanks > that were bad out of the box. The burner rejected them before > I was able to do anything. > Is this par for the course when buying packs of "discount" > blanks? I'm just wondering if I want to spend $$ on Memorex > again or if this is fairly typical. I'd say 20% was unacceptably high. I'm used to more like 1 disk out of a pack of 50 failing, and I tend to buy whatever 50-pack is on sale at one of the local computer supply stores. Two things may contribute to that. One is that I've got an older burner, which doesn't burn faster than 4x. Even the cheap media is certified at 8x or better, so that may help. The other is that I always run a cloth over the blank to brush off any loose dust or etc. before putting it in the drive. My coaster rate has gone down dramatically since I started doing that. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message