CD-RW

[Christopher Browne]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Mr Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>  Will I be safer with CD-Rs instead of CD-RWs? It seems so
>  but I don't know so.

There is useful information here that suggests a definite case of
"safer with CD-Rs":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-RW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R

The surfaces of CD-RWs differ quite substantially, as, in order to
support multiple burns, the materials need to be rather different from
those used in CD-Rs.

There may be old CD drives that can't read CD-Rs either, but they
should be pretty rare, by now.  Those that can't read CD-RWs are not
nearly as rare, as you have evidently observed :-(.
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