[SGVLUG] Writing CD's -- what media do you recommend?

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 10/12/05, Tom Emerson <osnut at pacbell.net> wrote:
> After getting a "great deal" on a 100-pack at Fry's last night, I got home to
> find that the Sony dual-layer drive doesn't seem to recognize Memorex either
> [which is odd because it sees the smaller 3-inch CD's just fine]  For DVD
> media, it recognizes the Memorex media, so I can bring copies of the 64-bit
> install of SuSE 10.0
Remeber that name brands have little todo with what you get as the
"Name Brand"'s offen just buy on the open market to have the disk made
by oems.
>
> So, am I just banging my head against the wall, or is it that the sony drive
> is "very picky" about CD media?  If so, what brand/style/etc. do you
> recommend or have had success with in the past?  [note: the memorex's work
> just fine in my laptop's drive, but this writes at 4x, so it's taking a while
> -- plus, I don't have enough "space" on my system for all the disks at the
> moment...]

Well there are a couple of things that could be going on. One have you
seen if you can write with cdrecord directly, sense they are already
iso files. Is your laptop running the exact same version of stuff as
your main system? Because there is some info written to the disk by
the manufacture that tells the cdwriting software things like media
type, writing power, max speed. Or your dvd writer is picky(firmware
upgrade maybe available).

As for recomendations I have never had a media incompatablity problem.
I have gotten very lazy as resent gnome desktop has left click option
"write to disk" for isos, which works better then cdrecord for dvd
isos.