> verbatim data life plus are not outsourced and should be the same > everywhere. the cheapo verbatims can vary.
Thanks, I never knew that.
What I have seen is that the disks seem to be blue or yellow. I assume that is the color of the dye that gets burned. Yellow (also gold/silver) disks work better for me in older drives.
> nonsense. many scsi burners have buffer underrun protection (both of > mine did) and they can burn at any speed provided the host computer can > source data that fast.
The original question was about a Yamaha 16x read, 4x burn unit. I have two of them and neither of them has buffer underrun protection. There was a firmware upgrade for it, I applied it to one of them and it did not seem to fix or break anything. :-)
> also, most discs these days are optimized for the higher burn speeds > and burning too slow is actually worse than burning closer to their > rated speed.
The TEAC blanks I use are marked 12x-52x, but they burn fine at 1x.
I burn relatively a lot (average 1 set a month) CD's for OLD Macs (680x0 series and pre-G3 PPC) and get good results burning them no faster the read speed of the target drive.
For some strange reason, CD's burned on PC's using DVD burners work fine when they are burned at any speed, athough I try to use 8x, which for most of them is the minimum.
Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM
