From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 5:48:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from edwin.mounet.com (edwin.mounet.com [216.145.76.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA02E37B719 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 05:48:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hornback@wireco.net) Received: (qmail 27251 invoked by uid 0); 20 Mar 2001 13:30:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tomcat) (216.145.67.97) by mounet.com with SMTP; 20 Mar 2001 13:30:11 -0000 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" To: "Jussi Reissell" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: CD burning question Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:47:29 -0500 Message-ID: <000601c0b144$4e5ec4e0$0e00000a@tomcat> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 In-Reply-To: <87elvs5zy2.fsf@mursu.pesa.fi> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jussi Reissell > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 8:32 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: CD burning question > > So, are there issues with older CD-ROM readers and rewritable disks > that I should be aware of? Or is this a case of simply doing the right > incantations when blanking/burning the disk? I use mkisofs and > cdrecord to burn the disk. I tried to do the blanking with either > blank=all or blank=fast switch on without success. Actually, yes, there are issues with older CD-Rom drives and CD-RW media. Personally, I'm surprised that it read it in the first place. A lot of lower speed (i.e. everything up to, but not including, 32x) CD-Rom drives simply won't touch a CD-RW, even if it's been burnt correctly. Same goes with a lot of early CD-R and CD-RW drives, as they used semi-proprietary formats to produce disks which were unreadable in anything but the drive they were created, or one of the same model. Basically, unless you're using a fairly modern CD-Rom which supports CD-R and CD-RW, I wouldn't try any non-professionally mastered CDs in those drives. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message