Problems with high speed CDR burns?

[Burticus]

I've been wondering about the new 12x and 16x burners. I currently have a Teac 58s scsi 8x and I seem to have problems reading the cd's on other systems if I burn at 8x. 6x seems ok. Most noticible are games that install slowly or play movies or other intros, they skip a lot and the cd-rom seems to be working a lot harder than usual (32x ide teac). If I burn at 6x the installations go smoother and the movies play better.

Also - If I use the Imation 16x 80 min, PNY 12x 80 min's, or Kingston Hypermedia 12x 80 min cd-r's (read - cheap) sometimes it can take a minute or two to recognize I put the blank media in the drive. If I slow the burn down to 4x or 6x it picks up the media much faster but still takes a little bit of time.
If I use a Verbatim 16x 80 min (with blue dye) it picks it up instantly no matter what speed. (however these are much more expensive)

I flashed my teac firmware up to current about a month ago. Didn't seem to make a difference.

So, in summary, anyone else have problems burning at 8x or higher on these new drives with cheap media? Any problems reading from the burns on various machines?

thx

 

[nortexoid]

i use cheap media...those 80min. (700mb) pine ones that u get i a pack of 50 (w/ blue die) for about 30bucks canadian...

burning at 12x, both my drives (creative 5x dvd & ricoh mp7120a) read the cds perfectly...

cd-rw media is another matter...my 5x dvd won't read my sony highspeed rw media...but obviously my ricoh does...my 5x dvd is good for one and only one thing...playing back dvd and reading regular cds...it takes about 5 seconds just to detect ANY cd-audio, so i'm not surprised that it doesn't even detect cd-rw

as for your case, it's probably that teac drive that's having problems reading the media...try it another (hgiher quality - i.e. plextor) drive and see how it reads it...

 

[Burticus]

Don't do any cdrw, in fact the 58s doesn't support it.

Interesting about your dvd-rom drive. I was thinking about getting one, wonder if the 12x dvd-rom's are any better with media detection. I thought the problems they has were limited to the old 1x and 2x dvd-rom drives.

Well, like I say the Verbatim media burns great, it just costs twice as much. You get really spoiled by how cheap the 50 pack spindles are (12-15).

Any of those high speed burns games with movies?