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besson3c · Sep 4, 2003, 08:34 PM

Hi,

I hate the CD-ROM player in my original 300Mhz iBook. It has so much problems with burned media.

I bought a bunch of CD-R's with absolutely no labels on them a long time ago, and they seem to work perfectly. However, I'm out of them and since there is no label I can't determine the make.. =)

I have tried Memorex, Sony, KHypermedia, and Verbatum burned CD media, and none will read properly.

I'm sick of spending money with experimenting with CD-Rs to find out they are useless (fortunately, I can use them with my future laptop).

If you are an iBook owner and have found a brand of CD-R media that actually works reliably, please let me know. Please do not post if you have some ideas as to what I could try, there is plenty info on the web. I need to know what *will* work... if it doesn't, I'll hunt you down! =)

(Okay, your opinions will also be highly valued, but what I'm really looking for is actual experience).

Thanks so much, in advance!

jedi2187 · Sep 5, 2003, 09:46 AM

I've burned data onto Verbatim and HP blank CD's using my slow but reliable Zip650 4X4X24 burner. What brand of burner are you using?

besson3c · Sep 5, 2003, 10:14 AM

Originally posted by jedi2187:
I've burned data onto Verbatim and HP blank CD's using my slow but reliable Zip650 4X4X24 burner. What brand of burner are you using?

My problem is not with burning but with reading CD-Rs that have been burned on other machines (Apple Combo Drive, Superdrive)

deidre · Sep 29, 2003, 01:46 PM

same here on a 366 SE clamshell (no cdr cdrw success) and a friend reported the same on his "Paris" 366 clamshell. He says that he can read cdr as long as they are "heavy", cheap ones can"t be red because of their lightweight, he can read all cdrw by far. That's a theory, another one floats in this forum, ie some says it depends on your burning software... but mine has a different approach.. the 366 SE cd drive began to fail on very cheap cdr then it get worst, so using cheap cdr media has increase the pb til it became unsolvable (i mean until no more cdr or cdrw can be red). So i guess it's a lens head/speed problem, a mecanical problem...

besson3c · Sep 29, 2003, 01:57 PM

I ended up making a 700 meg partition, and using ASR to load stuff into this parition. Basically, I sort of created a virtual CD using a separate partition.

It's been the only solution that has worked reliably.