CD-R Media Speeds

[tmung]

A couple days ago I put together a new Athlon XP system and decided to go for a 24x10x40 Lite-On CD-RW drive. The only problem is a while ago when I was content with my 8x4x32 drive I picked up a couple hundred 12x CD-Rs. This morning I tried burning a CD on one of these discs at 24x. The disc came out... sort of. I was a disk of MP3s and none of their titles were full length, but the music played fine. Is this the only "side-effect" of using slower media than approved for your drive? Can doing this damage your CD burner? Any help is much appreciated.

 

[Damascus]

The only thing it can damage is your data...

 

[brewdoctor]

The dyes in the disc determine the sensitivity to burning, so more absorbant dyes can allow a faster burn. The problem is the media, not the cdrw burner. Step back to 12x burn and see if that works.