Subj : Re: floppy disks
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Apr 30 2025 01:03 am

On 28 Apr 2025 at 03:48p, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>   Re: Re: floppy disks
 Ni>   By: boraxman to Nightfox on Tue Apr 29 2025 10:40 am
 Ni> 
 Ni>  bo> A rule of thumb that I used was to use half the speed of the disk, or
 Ni>  bo> burner. Burning TOO slow could yield suboptimal results.  The dyes an
 Ni>  bo> burners are designed for higher speeds.
 Ni> 
 Ni> Interesting..  I started to just always burn at the slowest speed the
 Ni> drive allowed, and I didn't have problems doing that.
 Ni> 

I think the issue is the drive had to lower the power of the laser, because it spends more time over the surface.  But it should be fine, definately better than burning at full speed, where you get 'smearing' of the pits, and the laser has to be turned up to burn.

Usually "slowest" was something like 4x anyway.  I generally went for 4x with my old Yamaha, and 8x or 10x for CDs with the Pioneer.

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