CDR Question

Factual Questions
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Hello!
This question was sent to me by a friend and I was wondering if anyone had some insight or info I could pass along. Thanks!
Zette

We have been battling an issue making CDRs. I have a situation where I have burnt identical data to a CDR at the same speed to the same brand of CDR.

These CDRs behave differently, I believe that one of them is getting read errors, which cause it to read the data slower, but it eventually does read the data.

Have you ever, or do you know where you would look for, a utility that will look at a CDR and be able to search for errors and to be able to tell how good the burn was.

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There are many issues here:

  1. Not all CDROM drives like CDRs equally. Are you saying that two identical CDRs play differently on identical CDROM drives?

  2. Sometimes CDs have errors deliberately put on them as a form of copy protection. CDR software will dutifully correct the errors and then the copy won’t be identical.

  3. CDR discs are not made of the same ‘stuff’ (technically speaking) as original CDs (either audio or CDROMs) and therefore copies of originals CDs may simply not read as reliably as the originals or each other.

There is software that will clone a CD (i.e. make an exact duplicate, errors and all). Go to ZDNet.com or TechTV.com and search their download libraries.