On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:16:39 -0600, "Kelwin Delaunay"
tickled my privates with this:

Hi:

I'm running Win XP Home Version 2002 SP 1 with all updates on eMachines
W2686 AMD AthlonXP 2600+ 2.12 Ghz with 512mb RAM. Only DVD/CDROM drive is a
LITE-ON COMBO LTC-4816H.

Problem: several times now I have attempted to copy some files to a new CD-R
(Imation 700mb 1x-12x).

One thought; I don't know if this is still the case; it was discovered
a few years ago that, even though cdroms and cdr's etc were made for
media containing a capacity of 650 megs (cd's, in plain language), an
unsupported capability existed to read higher than that, up to 700
megs. I don't know if the cdrom drive industry officially supports
that spec, or still goes with the original red book audio capacity of
650.

I've never dealt with this, since I stick to standard 650 meg media;
my impression has always been that if your hardware will read that
extra 50 megs, it's icing on the cake; if it won't, you should use the
standard.

Since you have a combo drive at that, is it possible the drive simply
won't deal with that unsupported overage? Is this the first time it's
happened with 700 meg media?

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