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

that would be a used drive from ebay ?

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.

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