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Re: OT - Bootable CD-ROM
- To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: OT - Bootable CD-ROM
- From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:51:53 +0100
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>getting full of dead CD's, what would also be good is if I could use
>CD-RW's
>but not all PC can read them, unless I can put the required drivers
onto
>the
>CD as well?
>
>
Surely that's nothing to do with drivers? - I thought it was merely the age
of the CDROM drive in the reading machine that determines whether or not it
can read CDRW's?? - Aren't CDRW's much lower reflectivity that CDR's? - the
laser read mechanism needs to be calibrated to account for that, which they
are in newer drives, but are not in older ones..
I have a stash of old IDE CDROM drives in my spares bin, some of which will
read CDRW's, some wont, I occasionally dig one out to use when building a
new PC on the bench. Whether that PC will read a CDRW or not depends purely
on which drive I pull out of the box... I never have to install drivers to
change that, - just pull another drive out of the box..
Paul G.
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