Posted by Andrw on 11/25/05 09:56

"NRen2k5" <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> iRobot wrote:
>> If your CD Writer is an old model, it may not support 700MB discs. You
>> would
>> have to use 650MB discs in this case. I had a Philips writer that did not
>> support 700MB discs & it also used Easy CD Creator. It would reject the
>> discs just as you say yours does. It seemed crazy, as you would think it
>> would write up to a 650MB limit on a 700MB disc, but no, it would spit
>> them
>> out & tell you to insert a blank. I can only assume that the writing
>> modes
>> are different, so it would not accept 700MB. Philips never had a firmware
>> update to enable larger capacity discs for the drive.
>> iRobot
>
> Well, the CD writer would have to be *pretty* old for it not to support
> 700MB CD-R's. I bought an HP branded drive in the year 2000 and it
> supported 700MB CD-R's perfectly.
>
> - NRen2k5

I think cdr drives were out in the market place before the year 2000 wernt
they?
Andrw
xx :-p

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