(idm) CD-R-ing (not covered by the FAQ)

From Irene McC
Sent Sun, Jan 17th 1999, 16:03

Iain wrote:

> a miniscule difference which enables an audio cdr to be recognised
> as such by a stand-alone cd burner  

Excellent ::: I'm glad mine's not a stand-alone.  I have a Yamaha 
Mac-friendly device on loan here, hanging off my box since there's 
no space inside, AND it's side-ways too coz the lead is too short, 
but with a SCSE-drive it's up and happening here with my Pee-Cee, 
but I seem to have a problem when it comes to indexing a 
completed burn.  

The Marantz CD player recognises the data as there and present, 
but when I select, say, track 5 - it just goes back to zero, ie giving 
me the total running time and track 1 cued to go.  Usually it will 
play from track 1 (if I'm lucky) but I need to manually scroll through 
the total tracks to get to where I want to be >!<  I've experienced 
this with TDK blanks; used to use Verbatim's previously, but had 
some write-to problems as well.

If I play them back through my CD-ROM drive, I don't have that 
problem : can go directly to any track I select, but I'm getting some 
skips (oval-style).

Any suggestions?  (I'm not using gold blanks, just green & blue 
ones).

I
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