Re: CD Problem Solved

[Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>]

Putting 7 times as much data on one disk is the only way to go. I still 
back up some of my CCD data to CD and it sucks ass.

Cheers,
Michael Koppelman
http://www.lolife.com/astronomy/

On Oct 6, 2004, at 6:09 PM, Tom Droege wrote:

> As you all know, I have been having a terrible time writing CDs.  They 
> neither
> read or write properly on my new Combo drives.  I finally tried 
> writing a
> DVD.  Perfect results.  So I think I will abandon CD writing in favor 
> of
> DVDs.  I had hoped that CDs would be a more reliable archive media, 
> but if
> they can't be written then they are a lousy archive.  Besides, I can 
> write
> and verify DVDs more efficiently since I can go off and do something 
> else for
> the half hour or so it takes to write one camera's worth of data to 
> DVD.