Are there any particular types or brands of CD-R's that are more likely to work on very old 1-4x CD-ROM drives?
I have a very old Pentium 233mhz laptop that has a fully functioning CD drive, but it just cant seem to read the CD's I am burning.
For those of you who might be younger, older CD drives had a tendency to not be able to read burned CDs. I have heard that using a different type/bring of CD-R media can work better.
My preferred German computer journal "c't - Magazin für Computertechnik" tested both DVD and CD burning devices in the past.
The summary is that there is high quality media around but the total success in terms of a low error rate depends on the combination of burning device and media. Devices have burning recipes in memory for different media that can be identified by their media code. If there is no specific recipe they use a standard one.
Most tested devices were full height but it seems to be reasonable to assume that half-height burners show similarly burning behaviour as their big brothers.
Taiyo Yuden is known for producing high quality media but that is no guaranty for low-error writes on your burning device. I personally still have Sony CD-R in stock for me. They were less stable over time but yielded low error rates when writing on my devices according to c't. Erik Deppe's CD/DVD/Speed, later renamed Opti Drive Control or Plextor's Plextool can deliver quality analysis that is similar to professional measurement devices.
Can other CD-Rom drives read your CD-Rs? Otherwise change burning device and media hoping to find something that can be read on your laptop.
After reading the comment of fred_dot_u I remember there were different write modes such as "disc at once" which is probably the safest...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc_recording_modes
Edit 3.11.2022 8:13 MEZ
Lowering burning speed also helped to reduce the error rate.
