K3b blew my writer (5 of them)

[Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:43:14PM -0400, Jeff Ratliff wrote:

> 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

Not crazy to me.
The write laser could have cooling issues or be over driven.
Over driven and poof fuse link... light is out.

I would avoid burning two in a row without a cool off period between.
Also contact the manufacturer.  Five in a row... something is broken.
They should not be shipping old broken firmware....


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