A list of the cdrom disks that I use to test cd drives for "media sensitivity":

• noname silver/silver (the ones I bought -- no longer have any other identifying information -- probably bought at Best Buy -- these have worked for me in most drives, including audio players -- now finding some problems, probably with older drives as LVCFK finds them)
• Memorex black/black
• Memorex silver/silver)
• Nashua silver/silver
• PNY silver/silver
• Ricoh gold/blue

Note: In general, I am just testing to see if the media is readable or not, but I found that the noname silver/silver media is readable in some machines where it is not bootable. On those machines, reading seems to be significantly below the rated speed. I suspect that the boot process times out while waiting for the media to be read.

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• CdRomDrives

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