high-speed drive
October 18, 2006 12:41 PM Subscribe
I bought some CD-RWs and noticed that they're for "high-speed drives only." Does anyone now if the internal drive on an iBook G4 qualifies?
Oh and to add to what I said, even the oldest iBook G4's DVD/CD-RW drive coud write CD-RW discs at up to 10x speed. Most CD-RW media is between 2x and 8x. You should be OK.
posted by ChazB at 1:06 PM on October 18, 2006
posted by ChazB at 1:06 PM on October 18, 2006
Response by poster: hmmm.. this say 8X to 12X compatible, and "for writing and rewriting only in drives bearing the CD-RW high-speed logo..."
but seems i should be OK?
posted by dearleader at 1:23 PM on October 18, 2006
but seems i should be OK?
posted by dearleader at 1:23 PM on October 18, 2006
"for writing and rewriting only in drives bearing the CD-RW high-speed logo..."
Stuff like this is generally marketing BS that they put on products so they have an out when you get a disc from a bad batch. I doubt many drives have the "CD-RW high-speed logo" on them.
Try one. Worst case scenario is it doesn't work and you take it to a big box store and swap it for stuff that will.
posted by ChazB at 2:15 PM on October 18, 2006
Stuff like this is generally marketing BS that they put on products so they have an out when you get a disc from a bad batch. I doubt many drives have the "CD-RW high-speed logo" on them.
Try one. Worst case scenario is it doesn't work and you take it to a big box store and swap it for stuff that will.
posted by ChazB at 2:15 PM on October 18, 2006
Some complete speculation, since I haven't seen a really definitive answer so far:
Different CDRWs use different dyes, which require different laser power and so forth. It's possible that a dye was developed for higher-speed CD writers that required something the lower-speed writers couldn't do. The disc has a pre-recorded area (ATIP) which tells the drive how to record into it, but perhaps older drives can't handle some newer dye types, or something.
posted by hattifattener at 8:08 PM on October 18, 2006
Different CDRWs use different dyes, which require different laser power and so forth. It's possible that a dye was developed for higher-speed CD writers that required something the lower-speed writers couldn't do. The disc has a pre-recorded area (ATIP) which tells the drive how to record into it, but perhaps older drives can't handle some newer dye types, or something.
posted by hattifattener at 8:08 PM on October 18, 2006
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posted by ChazB at 1:01 PM on October 18, 2006