Coasters can be relative which is what I think Darrin is getting at.
Often people burn a CD or DVD on one drive/computer to be used on
another drive/computer which makes the effectiveness of the burned image
relatively unsuccessful because if I burn at a high rate of speed on my
newest desktop CD writer, it often will generate read errors on my
laptop CD reader. If I burn at 4x, I KNOW I can use the CD in just about
every CD drive on every computer.

Craig

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 23:25 -0700, eric wrote:
> I prefer a quality drive :-P  
> 
> Seriously tho, my Plextor and Pioneer drives have never produced a coaster
> when using decent media, and having the computer only doing the burn (no
> multi-tasking), running at full speed (48x and 52x, respectively).  On the
> other hand, my Hi-Val drive has a success rate somewhere around 80-90
> percent.  
> 
> _eric
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Darrin
> Chandler
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 9:50 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: md5sum a dvd?
> 
> Reminder (yet again?) for people burning CDs: just because you have a
> 48x drive doesn't mean you should burn as fast as possible. I burn slow
> and it saves a lot of aggravation. I used to burn fast, but I burned
> bad CDs, or had it work on one box and not on another, etc.
> 
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