Burning a CD for legacy cd-rom drive (windoze95)
Hello.
I recently got a cd-rom drive for a 1996 laptop who is running Windows 95, my main computer is a quite new laptop running arch and with a generic dvd rw device. I happily ran on to burning some *.iso images using cdrecord, and xfburn. Single track in all the cases, and find that I can't read those cd under Windows 95 (yeah, and I was burning cd, not DVD). Those CD where able to be read with no problem under Linux and BSD, so I assume is some kind of problem with the format. Original CD have no problem to work under win95. It only fails when I record anything. Any ideas? any explanation on why those doesn't work? Thanks in advance |
what cd's are you using ?
-r? +r? +-RW ? |
They are plain CD-r
I tough it might also be a problem about win95 being unable to read UDF? I have to wait until a new floppy drive arrives to install a driver, as I don't have any other machine with windows to test it |
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or did you find a warehouse someplace that had some old ones on a shelf |
I bought it on ebay in this case, but online warehouses usually have anything you want if you google a product code. On my previous city I remember a warehouse who had anything I was looking for. Quite funny, as the warehouse was as big as a shoe box.
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When you say you can read the disk under Linux and BSD, is that on the Win 95 laptop, or just verifying the disc on a different computer?
If it's a CD ROM drive, it may not be able to read burned CDs. When burning a DVD, it is possible to change the "book type" to DVD ROM for burning and a DVD ROM can then read it, even if it can't read a normally burned DVD+R disc. I'm not sure if that is possible with CDs. |
Older cd rom drives were never meant to read "burned" cd's.
Some tips to help would be to use the best quality cd. I prefer the black ones. (yes, they are black) Also one needs to burn them at the very slowest speeds. Lastly don't use cd-rw. |
I remember the "playstation" black CD. However I solved it by burning the images at 10X (minimum speed), now It works like a charm! (my next problem will be not to fill the 1GB HDD :P)
Thank you very much for the replies |
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