K3b blew my writer (5 of them)

[Jeff Ratliff]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chadley Wilson" <chadley at pinteq.co.za>
To: "fedora-list" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 7:14 PM
Subject: K3b blew my writer (5 of them)


> Hello PPL
>
[snip]

> Now this is going to freak you out as it did me. After several
attempts
> at getting k3b to make more than one copy, It blew my writer.
Not a
> problem I replace the writer and it works ok! and then I tried
again to
> do multiple copies and again after much trying it blew the
writer again.
> I am now on my 5th writer. shees!
>

Check with the drive manufacturer and see if you come up with
anything.
You didn't say what the hardware was, but several boxes of blank
DVDs
I've gotten lately came with a card warning that certain models
of Pioneer
DVD writers could be destroyed by writing DVD-RW/DVD+RW discs
without a firmware upgrade.
  It sounded crazy to me, but I guess it happens. It's a long
shot, but
maybe your drives have a similar problem. I'd also check
ventilation. These
drives are known to get pretty hot when burning.