chuck finnigan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'm going to chance this is a hardware issue.  I'm thinking of buying a
> rewritable
> CD drive but heard that the disks used in those drives will not play on
> standard CD
> drives.  Is this true?  I know the disks used in these are more expensive than
> those used in the CD-R drives.  Thanks for any advice you can give.

Most (actually all I have seen) CD-RW drives can write to both media, either
CD-RW (which is more expensive), or standard CD-R in the standard formats. A
CD-RW disk may not be supported on all CD-ROM drives, especially those older
than a year or so. I do know that the newer Plextor CDROM drives (12/20Plex and
UltraPlex) will read CD-RW disks.

A CD-R disk written on a CD-RW drive is the same as one written on a CD-R drive,
and should be readable by most any CDROM drive.


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