Re: question: RW vs. R-only

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

raoul s wrote:
> burned CD, one on RW cdrom and one on RD-only.
> my redhat box could read the RD-only but not the
> RW one. why?. got it to do with the RD or RW?...??

Uh, was the RW disc a rewritable CD or a CD-R?  What color?  Older
CD drives have trouble reading the bluish CD-RW discs, and sometimes
the greenish CD-Rs.  This is due to the color of the laser in the
older drive.  They read silver and gold with no problems, but the other
colors give them conniptions.
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