I burned a dozen successful CD-R's a few weeks ago with my new Lite-On 48x CD-RW.
I played with CD Speed tonight, and did a "Scandisk surface test" on a few of those CD-R's. To my surprise Scandisk found several damaged and unreadable sectors on many of the CD-R's. If I had never done this test I would never had known, as I seem to be able to read the files okay on the CD-R's.
Which leads me to a question - practically speaking, does it matter if there are a few damaged sectors? When I burn CD-R's I ask Nero 5.5 to verify the CD-R, and it always states the burning is a success. At what point would Nero say the CD-R burning process is a failure? It seems to not care that there are a few damaged sectors, as evidenced by my Scandisk Surface test...
Thanks...