Re: [OS:N:] CD Burner glitch.

[Johnnie Peters <johnnie123 sbcglobal net>]

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 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.

Johnnie

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 09:45, Access Systems wrote:
> ok strange problem.
> Red Hat 9
> Yamaha CD Burner.CDRW
> Memorex CDRW brand new disks
> 
> I used X-CD-Roast to burn a few jpg for a friend and burner seemed to work
> fine.
> after finish I try to read the disk,   "No medium found"
> 
> so I try again...burn another disk,    "No Medium found"
> 
> hmmmm,  switch to Gnome toaster,   burn another disk,  "no Medium found"
> 
> stuff one of the disks into my laptop, runs perfectly,  put in all the
> others and they all run perfect????
> 
> so start checking and any CD burned on this drive will no longer open.
> (they did in the past) But any CD burned on any other software or machine
> works fine!
> 
> well went to a LUG meeting and took one of the disks.
> 
> on some folks machines they opened and on some others they wouldn't
> on one machine it opened burner software as though it was a new disk.
> 
> now I suspect a hardware problem but this really has me baffled,
> especially why it will open disks burned on some guys windows machine but
> won't read a disk that was just burned on that drive???
> 
> anyone got any thoughts before I go buy a new burner.???
> 
> thanks
> Bob
> 
> 
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