T43 compatable media for CD-RW drive?

[Cowman]

None of the disks I've tried burning on my T43's burner have been good. I'm wondering if they're known to be finicky about cd-r media.

Any recomended brand?

[kaplanfx]

Dunno about the T43 but I've burned about 15 TDK 52x discs in my T42 and each one came out fine.

-kaplanfx

[GomJabbar]

I've had excellent experience with the Verbatum brand in all my CD burners - but only the ones made in Taiwan. I bought one one package of Verbatum's that were made in India, that I had trouble with, and on further investigation found out that they were coated with a different recording dye.

I went to Plextor's site to see which medium they supported, and there they display the actual model number of the packages they support. When I went to return the Verbatum Indian CD/R's to Micro Center, I found the Taiwan version also on the shelf. I bought them (the Taiwan version) and have never had a problem since.

I have a program called Smartburn from Lite-On that can tell what type of dye is used in the manufacture of the CD. It was a free download from Lite-On's site.