[nylug-talk] CD-R as archival media

[Michael B. Levy]

Thanks.

I've only had problems with this media in particular. 
I bought some blanks from Sony and I've had no
problems.

I have yet to burn cds in Windows.  The EZ-CD Creator
software that came with the cd-rw drive conflicted
with itself (I kid you not!) so until I tried the
cdrtools port to Windows (which I just might do
someday just for kicks) I stick with k3b or xcdroast. 
K3b is a very attractive application, if you haven't
tried it.

Mike

--- Carl Friedberg <friedberg at exs.esb.com> wrote:
> I know this is the Linux list. I haven't tried any
> CDR burning on Linux yet (soon to happen), but on
> Windoze, one thing I really like about Nero Burning
> Rom software is that it always* verifies the CDR
> after
> the burn. Now, I'm sure that's no guarantee, but at
> least you know there's something on the
> coaster-to-be.
> 
> I strongly agree that, given the cost of
> coasters-to-be,
> and the speed of current drives (and buy media that 
> work at that speed!!!!!), make 2 copies. And, make
> sure you can read both of them before you archive
> them.
> 
> Carl
> 
> * I had to configure it once, then it always
> remembers
> 


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