On 29/10/05, Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@myrealbox.com> wrote:
To this list of recommendations I add LiteOn having had a CDRW and recently DVDRW they work. My usage is slight mostly backups about 300+ disks only caution generic CD media seem OK but Maxell brand about 10% coasters.
CWSIV
I personally will not use Sony brand CD/DVD reader writers. I've seen a lot fail with no warning and while only a couple of months old. My experience comes from running a computer lab at the uni' I worked at with 120 PC's under my charge. These CD's were used very , very little I might add. We habitually disabled them through the BIOS so that students were unable to use them to listen to music and therefore hogging a machine that somebody may have needed for course work. We, as technicians would only enable them when we were working on the individual PC at the time. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR