DVD Burner permission question

[Ed Greshko]

John Pierce wrote:
>>
>> I haven't seen anything in this thread that would suggest that the drives
>> are from 2 different companies.  Would you care to enlighten me as to how
>> you arrived at that conclusion?  I must have missed something.
>>
> I am not sure how he ciphered that out either, but they are two
> different manufacturers.
> 
> The failing drive is an LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4084N and the drive in
> my machine is a MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-851S.

FWIW, I've not had very much luck with LG drives.  So, if you do have them
replace it...go with the Matshita.  I think I had 3 of them go bad in 2
years of light use.

> I have thought about it some more and I am not going to swap the
> drives, I am just going to insist that HP replace the drive.  I mean,
> it worked then it didn't.
> 


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