crumrine Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 I am having an interesting problem using Retrospect 6 (with the latest hw udpate) trying to write to CD-R media. I have read in the forum about all (or most) CD-RW drives supporting CD-R media. I two HP drives (an 8100 and 9100) that do not support CD-R media, but support CD-RW. We replaced one with an LG CD-RW (because it was sitting around) drive and it does support CD-R. But we first tried a brand new (not on the HW support list) Lite-on which also only supported CD-RW. I need to purchase a drive to replace the HP 8100 and would like to make sure it supports CD-R. I have just browsed the hardward list (for the 50th time), but can't decide which drive to get because they don't list CD-R compatibility. Is anyone using one of the newer e.g. 40x drives to write CD-R? Is there a recommended drive to write CD-R media? I believe the ones specifically listed for CD-R media in the hw support list are older (slower) drives. Thanks, Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted March 21, 2003 Report Share Posted March 21, 2003 The 8100 and the 9100 both support CD-R and CD-RW media in Retrospect. Any drive that has CD-RW capability and is qualified will support both media types unless explicitly stated otherwise in the device notes for that drive. Off the top of my head I can't think of any supported drives for Windows that support CD-RW, but not CD-R. http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=compatibility_list Hope this helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crumrine Posted March 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 Thanks for the reply, but that's not the answer I was expecting. These drives definitely work with all kinds of CD-R writing software but not in Retrospect. I have too much time into these drives trying to get them to work, a swapped out drive solved the problem on the first machine we had this problem with. Could Retrospect have a problem writing to one CD drive and not another in the same computer? Especially when the CD-R functionality works with every other problem we have tried. Regardless, since I can't spend hours of my customer's (or my) time to figure this out, I have marked the HP drives off my compatibility list. Is there a recommended drive (or just a newer one someone has working) to write CD-R media? Thanks, Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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