[OS:N:] CD Burner glitch.

[Access Systems]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2004, Johnnie Peters wrote:

> I have had this problem on a CD burner before that I had used a great
> deal.  I suspect that over time the laser no longer created as strong an
> image as it had in the past.  If the image is a bit weak then some CD
> drivers may read it fine while other fail to read it at all.

I'm not a heavy user by any means, maybe one or two disks a week max. but
I have had the burner for about 2 years, figured it almost had to be a
hardware problem.
guess when I get a new burner I will need to reburn them

any suggestions as to a new internal burner,

> I have only seen this with one CD burner.  I have seen this a lot with
> tape drives in the past.  The old 80 and 160 megabyte cartridge tapes
> (late 80s timeframe) were notorious for this.

yeah one of the reasons I gave up on tape backups

thanks
Bob

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