Hitherto, I have used R80 (700mB) discs in my computer disc drive.

The current offering from Viking is for a much higher storage capacity.
How do I tell if my fairly ancient drive will handle these discs?
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Tim Lamb

On 09/04/14 11:14, Tim Lamb wrote:
Hitherto, I have used R80 (700mB) discs in my computer disc drive.

The current offering from Viking is for a much higher storage capacity.
How do I tell if my fairly ancient drive will handle these discs?

The easy way is to try and burn one. Deoending on how old the drive is,
it may or may not be able to cope with CD-Rs up to 800Mb, but you may
need to get a bit "clever" with the driver configuration. What capacity
are the new discs?

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John.

On 09/04/2014 11:14, Tim Lamb wrote:
Hitherto, I have used R80 (700mB) discs in my computer disc drive.

The current offering from Viking is for a much higher storage capacity.
How do I tell if my fairly ancient drive will handle these discs?

What do you mean?

There are a few CD makers producing media that are not orange book
compatible and probably best avoided unless you like living dangerously.

See:

http://www.osta.org/technology/cdqa7.htm

Under 90 & 99min disks. Or for a review and hints on how to:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intenso-1001...d+media+90+min

I'd be more inclined to worry about the compatibility of old CD writers
with some of the modern dyes. I have seen a few that make toasters.

DVDs are even more tetchy about writing and write speeds.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

In message , Martin Brown
writes
On 09/04/2014 11:14, Tim Lamb wrote:
Hitherto, I have used R80 (700mB) discs in my computer disc drive.

The current offering from Viking is for a much higher storage capacity.
How do I tell if my fairly ancient drive will handle these discs?

What do you mean?

There are a few CD makers producing media that are not orange book
compatible and probably best avoided unless you like living dangerously.

Ah! Slight intelligence gap.

I searched for CD discs on the Viking site and their only offering was
the DVD+RW at 4.7GB.

I guess this is a different animal?
--
Tim Lamb

In message , John Williamson
writes
On 09/04/14 11:14, Tim Lamb wrote:
Hitherto, I have used R80 (700mB) discs in my computer disc drive.

The current offering from Viking is for a much higher storage capacity.
How do I tell if my fairly ancient drive will handle these discs?

The easy way is to try and burn one. Deoending on how old the drive is,
it may or may not be able to cope with CD-Rs up to 800Mb, but you may
need to get a bit "clever" with the driver configuration. What capacity
are the new discs?

On checking they were DVDs!

I see they have the usual CDs in their paper catalogue so probably just
my finger trouble:-)




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Tim Lamb

On 09/04/2014 12:13, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Martin Brown
writes
On 09/04/2014 11:14, Tim Lamb wrote:
Hitherto, I have used R80 (700mB) discs in my computer disc drive.

The current offering from Viking is for a much higher storage capacity.
How do I tell if my fairly ancient drive will handle these discs?

What do you mean?

There are a few CD makers producing media that are not orange book
compatible and probably best avoided unless you like living dangerously.

Ah! Slight intelligence gap.

I searched for CD discs on the Viking site and their only offering was
the DVD+RW at 4.7GB.

I guess this is a different animal?

Just slightly. They use a red laser, not an IR one, for a start... :-)

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

On 09/04/2014 12:13, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , Martin Brown
writes
On 09/04/2014 11:14, Tim Lamb wrote:
Hitherto, I have used R80 (700mB) discs in my computer disc drive.

The current offering from Viking is for a much higher storage capacity.
How do I tell if my fairly ancient drive will handle these discs?

Quickest way is go into device manager and post the DVD/CD ROM model
ident string for the drive or search online to get its capabilities.

What do you mean?

There are a few CD makers producing media that are not orange book
compatible and probably best avoided unless you like living dangerously.

Ah! Slight intelligence gap.

I searched for CD discs on the Viking site and their only offering was
the DVD+RW at 4.7GB.

Try Amazon they probably have better prices and a wider range of decent
brands. Specialist DVD/CD media sellers have an even wider range.

I guess this is a different animal?

Completely - they are DVDs and you can get them in + and - flavours and
with different dye technologies any one of which can be a cause of
difficulties in writing media that will read reliably on any machine.

Finding one that works with your kit and sticking to it is not a bad
idea. Choice of media is even more critical if you originate content and
don't want to be mithered by people who can't read your disks.

These days Bluray are the highest capacity storage media available.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:13:07 +0100, Tim Lamb wrote:

In message , Martin Brown
writes
On 09/04/2014 11:14, Tim Lamb wrote:
Hitherto, I have used R80 (700mB) discs in my computer disc drive.

The current offering from Viking is for a much higher storage
capacity.
How do I tell if my fairly ancient drive will handle these discs?

What do you mean?

There are a few CD makers producing media that are not orange book
compatible and probably best avoided unless you like living dangerously.

Ah! Slight intelligence gap.

I searched for CD discs on the Viking site and their only offering was
the DVD+RW at 4.7GB.

I guess this is a different animal?

Yes...try SVP (.co.uk)



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In article , Bob Eager
writes
On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:13:07 +0100, Tim Lamb wrote:

I searched for CD discs on the Viking site and their only offering was
the DVD+RW at 4.7GB.

I guess this is a different animal?

Yes...try SVP (.co.uk)

Haven't used them since the original guy in Plymouth? sold up and the
buyers (in Dundee) sold my email address for spam. When the address was
svpdate-of-first-order@my-domain it was a bit of a give away.

These days I search Amazon for deals and generally use Datawrite
Titanium in the -R variant (CD-R/DVD-R) without problems.

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