CDr's

CDr's

[Lorne Webber]

Speaking of Cdr's and such, I just bought a 100 pack of 700 MB Cicero CDR's,
and their all junk. I was going to go for Memorex, but the Cicero were
cheaper, and since I'd never tried them before I thought I'd give them a
chance.
I've tried them with 2 different burners, with 3 different burning packages,
and at every speed from 1x to 16 x, and they all give me a error data cyclic
redundancy check when I check them afterwards. I've made sure nothing else
was running when they were burning, that made no difference. I've tried many
Memorex and they gave me absolutely no troubles.
needless to say, I'm not too happy to just have thrown away $40 on some
expensive paper weights!
any of you had similar problems with Cicero stuff?

Thanks.
Lorne

Re: CDr's

[Steve Holmes]

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No, I don't recall that particular brand but I also learned the bitter
lesson of "You get what you pay for."  I bought a 200 pack one time
and I had a 30% failure rate.  They were almost free after a rebate.
I since learned that the higher the rated write speed, the better they
supposedly are.  I like the Memorex 48X blanks; they work nicely for
me.  I can't bost of a 100% success rate but pretty close.  I had a
couble fixation time outs and such but mostly they work good.  I'm
sticking to them.  I even had one of those cheap ones lose data on me
after having it on the shelf for a year or so.  

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:27:08PM -0600, Lorne Webber wrote:
> Speaking of Cdr's and such, I just bought a 100 pack of 700 MB Cicero CDR's,
> and their all junk. I was going to go for Memorex, but the Cicero were
> cheaper, and since I'd never tried them before I thought I'd give them a
> chance.
> I've tried them with 2 different burners, with 3 different burning packages,
> and at every speed from 1x to 16 x, and they all give me a error data cyclic
> redundancy check when I check them afterwards. I've made sure nothing else
> was running when they were burning, that made no difference. I've tried many
> Memorex and they gave me absolutely no troubles.
> needless to say, I'm not too happy to just have thrown away $40 on some
> expensive paper weights!
> any of you had similar problems with Cicero stuff?
> 
> Thanks.
> Lorne
> 
> 
> 
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Re: CDr's

[Luke Davis]

Have you tried bu8rning them as audio disks?


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Lorne Webber wrote:

> Speaking of Cdr's and such, I just bought a 100 pack of 700 MB Cicero CDR's,
> and their all junk. I was going to go for Memorex, but the Cicero were
> cheaper, and since I'd never tried them before I thought I'd give them a
> chance.
> I've tried them with 2 different burners, with 3 different burning packages,
> and at every speed from 1x to 16 x, and they all give me a error data cyclic
> redundancy check when I check them afterwards. I've made sure nothing else
> was running when they were burning, that made no difference. I've tried many
> Memorex and they gave me absolutely no troubles.
> needless to say, I'm not too happy to just have thrown away $40 on some
> expensive paper weights!
> any of you had similar problems with Cicero stuff?
>
> Thanks.
> Lorne
>
>
>
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> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
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