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| It has been a while back with promises of a 99 minutes CD-R media but none ever surfaced. Over 6 months ago we already had offers of several companies who would supply us with the first samples but they never arrived. Now, since June 2000, the long awaited CD-R99 media has finally arrived for real!
To achieve the 99 minutes two known methods are used:
- The CD-R spiral, which starts on the inside and ends on the outer part of the CD, is now even wound closer together, this method was also used to create CD-R80 media.
- The CD-R will be Oversized/Overburned which results in an extra 4 minutes space.
Again these CD-R99 media do not comply to the CD Red-Book standard. If you experienced problems using CD-R80 media then forget about CD-R99 media as it will not work at all!
The German based Engelmann GmbH has been reporting that the new CD-R99 media will not be fully useable on all CD-Writer & CD-Readers. For now only the Mitsumi CR4804 & LG CED8080B/8083B CD-Writers can write up to 99:05 minutes without any problems. Others, like the Teac CD-W54 & PlexWriters, will not go past the 90 minutes limit and most will likely stop at around 84 minutes. |
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| For now CDRWin, Feurio!, DiskJuggler & CDRecord support writing up to 99 minutes but most likely all CD-R recording packages will be supporting the new media in the next few weeks!
Keep in mind that all CD-R99 media will be recognized as CD-R80 media which can be written up to 79:59 minutes, this is because 79:59 minutes was the maximum possible recording time. Going beyond this value will result in a negative track value (this is usually the cause that some software will fail to work!). |
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| As it seems only a few CD-ReWriters can use the full 99 minutes, most can "only" go up to 90 minutes, checkout the following list from Disc4you: |
| Company |
Model / Firmware |
Max. Capacity |
Successful |
Failed |
| Mitsumi |
4801 |
- |
- |
All |
| 4802 |
- |
- |
All |
| 4804 / FW > 2.2C |
99:05 min |
1x, 2x |
4x |
| Plextor |
W124T / FW > 1.02 |
89:59 |
8x, 4x, 2x |
- |
| W8432T / FW >1.05 |
89:59 |
8x, 4x, 2x |
1x |
| PX-R412 |
- |
- |
All |
| 820T / FW > 1.05 |
89:59 |
8x, 4x, 2x |
1x |
| 121032A / FW > 1.01 |
89:59 |
12x, 8x, 4x, 2x |
1x |
| 8220T / FW > 1.02 |
89:59 |
8x, 4x, 2x |
1x |
| Teac |
CD-R 50S |
- |
- |
All |
| CD-R 55S / FW > 1.0Q |
92:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
| CD-R 56S/58S *1) |
- |
- |
All |
| CD-W512E |
89:59 |
8x, 4x, 2x, 1x |
12x |
| CD-W54E |
89:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
| LG Electronics |
CED - 8080B
FW > 1.00 |
99:05 min |
2x, 4x |
8x |
CED - 8083B
FW > 1.00 |
99:05 min |
2x, 4x |
8x |
CD-RW - 8084
FW > 1.00 |
89:59 |
1x, 2x |
4x |
| Ricoh |
MP 6200 |
- |
- |
All |
| MP7040 / FW > 1.02 |
89:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
| MP7060 |
89:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
| 7063A-DP |
89:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
| 7080A-DP |
89:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
| 7120A |
89:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
| MP 8040 / FW > 1.03 |
89:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
| MP 9060 / FW > 1.05 |
89:59 |
6x *2) |
4x, 2x, 1x |
| Samsung |
SW-208B |
89:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
| SM-304 |
89:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
| Traxdata |
CDR 4120 PRO |
92:59 |
1, 2x, 4x |
- |
| Memorex |
CD-RW 8432 |
89:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
| CD-RW 4420s |
89:59 |
4x, 2x, 1x |
- |
*1) The Teac CD-R 56S/58S will record up to 89:59 minutes when running in Teac 55S compatibility mode.
*2) Better use 2x and maximum 4x speed as this drive tends to fail at certain tracks when writing at 6x speed! |
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