>Hi,
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>I'm trying to burn a CD for the widest number of readers, but am doing something wrong.
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>1) I am using Nero burning ROM software (version 4 and also 5).
>2) I have tried many parameter combinations, but there are several machines where the CDs are just not recognized. These same machines read commercial CDs, though. The most universal, ISO 9660 Mode 1, with or without Joliet, fails too.
>3) One posible problem... I am using RW CD media, even though I'm using a ROM format...
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>Anybody has an idea ?
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>TIA,
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>Alex

For what it is worth we burn CD's here for distribution of our application. We have faced several times where a CD will reach someone and they complain that it cannot be read. In that case we will try to burn another one for them, which sometimes works and sometimes does not. We try to burn them using different CD burners in this case and 95% of the time that takes care of it. But the bottom line is that a CD I burn will not run on all computers, that seems to be a guarantee. When we need wide (very wide) distribution we send the master off to a place like Sony and contract them to stamp out the data CD. The method of stamping out like music CD's or any other data CD seems to work better than burning. We have gone to a web based installation to answer the problems with CD burners. My two cents...