> Michael Smith wrote: >> Are you burning the iso images as a single file, or creating a cd from >> the iso images? > > I've done mostly ISO files. But for the files that I made CDRs of, it > had like results. > > I'm getting ready to burn a CDR with all ogg files on it. I'll report > what it does on my work machine. > > I haven't ever looked for an update to the burner's firmware yet. It > might need an upgrade. > > My ACER burner is a 12x8x32 speed unit. I got it when I was still using > a 166 MHz packard bell machine. > > It worked great until I upgraded to 8.0. Then there were disc errors > present. At first, I wrote it off as a bad cd reader within my laptop. > Then I saw errors on my work XP machine and on audio CDRs that I have > burned. Before 8, they all worked excellent. > > My reader is whatever comes with a PowerSpec computer. It is 52x max. It > checksummed my phoebe discs alright. It was erratic with trying to > install with them though. Sometimes the screen went blank and I had to > ctl-alt-del my way out of the installer. > > The same discs failed mediacheck on my laptop 490CDT Toshiba. They > hunted and gave all sorts of errors. The discs would boot, but the discs > weren't good to install with. > > I tried to burn the discs on RH7.3 and the discs didn't fail the > mediacheck on my laptop and then burned the same ISO for a test on > phoebe3. It was full of errors. Except, I killed magicdev before the > burning, so there were a few less erros reported on the disc. But not > good enough to use. > > Jim For what it's worth I have an ACER CDR that I bought last Oct. It was working great and then I started getting some strange errors that I attributed to bad media. All of a sudden the the writer couldn't read any media. I took and back and they replaced it. Gerry
