[Wolves] old cd drive error reading cd question

[Steve]

i was wondering if its likely that old CD cd drives have problems reading certain cds? i.e ones with long filenames, 
700MB capacities and so on?

Just that i was installing linux on some fab machines (thanks ron + nick  :-) and it ready the mandrake cds fine, 
but would it read the cd that had the website on that i need to install for the weekend? would it **ck!  I got input 
output errors and a variety of DriveReady Access errors. Anyway , the best spec machine (with a newer cd drive) 
installed everything no probs, so i  swapped the drives around and it worked fine..

i was just wondering for future reference if theres a guidline for how to make cd's that will definitely work on 
older machines as its not viable to keep changing drives all the time?

ta
ste