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Re: OT - Bootable CD-ROM
- To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: OT - Bootable CD-ROM
- From: "Dan James" <UKHA@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 10:12:34 -0000
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yeap your right, it is down to the drive not the driver.
Dan
--- In ukha_d@y..., "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@h...> wrote:
> >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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