[ale] 24x CD-RW can not write

[James Sumners]

It's even worse in the DVD+/-RW realm. DVD burners are very picky
about the media they will write to. You just have to hope the media
will work, or stick to buying what the manufacturer recommends.

2008/4/10 Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>:
> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 13:30 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>  > If the drive doesn't have an "Ultra" logo on the door
>  > (or face plate), then it will not work with Ultra Speed discs. I got
>  > burned by this one myself; well, on one of my burners. (pun not
>  > intended)
>
>  I, too, have had this happen to me.  I thought the days of having to pay
>  (extremely) close attention to your blank media purchases were over...
>
>         --- Mike


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