On Mon, 4 May 2020 14:07:09 +0000 (UTC), wrote:
I have problems with a shrink wrapped unprinted pack of CDs. The drive read
and writes other CDs, includin an older pack of 3.5" I know I wrote to these
with an earlier (replaced) drive and I have problems with these CDs on
computers that are not mine. But since I have occasionally succeded, I ask if
it is something I did? Like writing speed?

FWIW, for many years now, I've had a habit of always
cutting the proposed writing speed in half.
Haste make waste -- and coffee coasters.

You did not state whether the CD device physically does not accept the
3.5" CDs, or if the CD write went to finsh and the results were useless.

Jonesy
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