-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:20, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Do you have any evidence? > > Yes. My laptop's DVD/CD-RW drive (Hitachi something-or-other) turns > out coasters if I try to use -s max with no-brand CD-R media. Tried newer firmware? > > You will have big problems finding any CD-R media (even very > > cheap one) with rating < 32 on the market today, so that chances to > > "overspeed" the media with those ancient burners are quite theoretical. > > What planet do you live on? Back here on Earth, the most widely > available CD-R media is 16x or 24x, and prices rise steeply once you > cross that boundary. For CD-RW media, that boundary is even lower (8x > or 12x). The drive reads ATIP info from the disk to determine the maximum writable speed (Among other useful things) Of course the media could be lying about the maximum speed it's rated for, but I haven't seen media like that. I buy Verbatim 48x spindles of 50 disks which are fairly cheap but don't produce coasters. CD-RW media is slower but that's a function of the way CD-RW's are made and their smaller volume. - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBNG+q5ZPcIHs/zowRAgDcAJ9w+nrttfrdHDVT02CthdYUQwU3egCfahst gyZ7SDzrclqoXiOuJXEtTrg= =Qb5/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 10:31:52 UTC
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