If
you are using CD media of more than 80-minute length you have to fulfill
3 preconditions:
1. Burning program supporting overburning (record having over
80 minutes), 2.
Burning drive supporting overburning, 3. Drive that is able
to read such medium (some drives can have problems with media having
more than 80 minutes). 4. A medium with a higher capacity.
According
to information available, the CDRwin 4.0 and Nero 5.5 programs are the
ideal ones. From my experience I can describe the Nero program settings
on the TEAC CD-W524E drive. (when I was writing this article, the
4.0 version of CDRwin didn't exist).
On
the "General" card change numbers of minutes to 80 and 90
which causes a change of marks on the bottom info panel that shows CD
size limits.
Activation
of the "Overburn" function you ensure by ticking off "Enable overburn.." and
by defining the maximal limit for a CD. The maximal value is 99 minutes,
but many drives have great problems with media larger than 90 minutes.
Besides
the "Overburn" function, there also changes the scale and the
values on the info panel.
The
info panel displaying data amount prepared for to be burned.
Other
necessary settings:
"No
Multisession" - at start select CD-ROM (ISO) and from "Multissesion"
select "No Multisession"
"Disc
At Once" - On the "Burn" card change the type of burning to "Disc
At Once". Click on the "Write" button and you can start
creating CD.
The
medium will be ejected together with a "not enough space"
warning - Insert it again...
The
"not enough space" warning appears again - if you are sure
that you have chosen the right CD for you data and you also have a
burning drive that supports the "Overburn" function, use the
"Write Overburn" button.
Notes
The
Nero burning ROM and most other programs are only able to define the CD
size maximally to 80 minutes. Larger media are defined as 80-minute
media (700MB). E. g. a 99-minute medium was defined as a medium of
160MB capacity.
We
were creating a data CD with the capacity of 90 minutes (790MB - 809680KB
- 828 716 281b)
There
can really appear some problems at the reading of such CD. TEAC CD-W524E and Sony
52x read the medium without problems. Unfortunately, DVD Toshiba 16x/48x (SD-M1612)
refused to read some data at the end of the CD (about 10MB of files).
When
I used 99-minute medium I found out by simulation that TEAC CD-W524E and
Sony are not able to burn media larger than 90 minutes.
When
I was testing the SONY drive (CRX1611), I created an audio CD with few songs
having the total length of 90.00.60. I tested this CD on the Phillips FW-P78
hi-fi which had a problem with reading last two sound tracks (this type
of hi-fi is not too old and to its qualities I would just say that it is
also able to read rewritable media). The problem appeared when I used
skipping to get directly to the last track or to the track before. When
the skipping was not used, it means when the CD was played continuously,
the tracks were played right, just at the end of the last track there
appeared a problem with reading and finishing the playing (the laser
always tried to read the end of the CD).
On
the TEAC drive, there was a problem with the legibility of the last
track. The
Toshiba drive read the whole CD, but when skipping between tracks, it
sometimes had difficulty in reading last 3 tracks. The problems written
above were probably caused by creating CD with maximum limit that the
drives were able to cope with. Lowering the total time of few dozens of
seconds can solve the problems.
The
recommendation can be to create CDs with maximal capacity of about 89
minutes.
Another
audio CD I have tried had the capacity of 89 m 12s and seemed to be
better as for the legibility, but still in the P78 hi-fi the same
problem with reading when skipping remained - when continuously played,
everything was all right.
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