difficulty burning with cd-r 99min

[harar]

Hi room,

I am not sure if i am in the right forum, but if not i do appologize in advance.

I have Yamaha cdwriter [CRW2100E] and i am using nero software. i have been burning vcd's fine until i bought cd-r with 99minute/900mb [it is called sunpower cd-r] since i want to burn bigger movie/file size. i tried it but my writer would not reconize the 99min cd-r as 99min, rather only as 80min. I tried to change the min to 99min with nero proporties option but it was all in vain. I have a feeling my cdwriter may not support high CDRs and i think it is hopeless but please somebody tell me threre is a hope and there is a way to solve this by manupulating nero or something. I have ezcd platinium software too, i have not tried it with that. Do u think it might work with EZCd roxio's platinum. What cdwriter do u suggest do best to do this job?

Still learning,

Student and learner

[vitualis]

Many 90 and 99min CD-Rs will only claim "80min" capacities. However, as long as you haven't ripped off, they truly do contain enough sectors for the respective capacities. In effect, you are doing a "safe" overburn.

However, you burner must also be able to overburn to that degree... Most newer burners can -- I'm not familiar with your burner however.

In addition, it is not recommended that you do a high speed burn on 99min media as many drives have difficulties towards the fringes of the disc.

Regards.

[omoses]

Hi room,
it but my writer would not reconize the 99min cd-r as 99min, rather only as 80min.

Yes, that's ok, almost every Media with more than 80 minutes claims itself to be 80 Minutes long. Just turn on the overburn-option, and it will work. But there is another drawback: With your drive (Yamaha 2100) you will only be able to burn about 90 Minutes, not more. You will find a list of drives and their maximum capacity here:

http://www.instantinfo.de/overburn/laufwerke.php

Sorry, but maybe with an newer firmware there will be a chance.

[Arky]

Another overburning compatibility list:

http://www.medeainternational.com/info/90min.htm


Arky ;o)

[ryanreko]

can most dvd players read disks that have been written all the way out to the 99 min mark? or is there a lot of limitation there as well..?

[vitualis]

I remember reading an article on Tom's Hardware on this. My personal experience agrees with their findings.

90 min CDs are read relatively well (up to 90min) on most CD/DVD drives that can read CD-R.

However, 99min CDs appear to be much more problematic, especially at the extremes of the disc.

Regards.