Re: IDE CD drivers vs SCSI CD driver

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:34:11 +0200 (MET DST)


B. Chow wrote:
> Yeah, I thought about this. This is more bizzare: the CD is a
> gold-colored one manufactured by KAO. Before anyone says yes! media
> problem!, this is weird: the SCSI 1x (by Sony) drive I have is the older
> one, and reads the CD fine. The IDE drive is the
> much newer drive, some 10x or something by Acer (I don't know who built
> it). It could be possible, but maybe 10x drives can't read CDR media
> properly? (it was written in a JVC 2x writer)

A friend of mine refuses to write CDs at more than x1 speed, because
he's having trouble reading them afterwards on faster CD ROM readers.

I'm writing CDs at x4. Reading them at x8 poses no problems for me.

Roger.