[OS:N:] CD Burner glitch.

[Johnnie Peters]

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 14:28, Chris Spencer wrote:
> I disagree with the diagnostic.  I would put my money on the brand of
> CD's.
I have had differing experiences with various brands of CDs.  This is of
course the easy thing to try first.  Did not help me that time.

Johnnie

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> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 15:54, Access Systems wrote:
> > 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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