[arachne] Re: INFO NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE DOS/ARACHNESUPPORT

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Gregy,
             I have never had to use a cleaner
disk on any drive.  Are you using R/W disks ??
You can only erase a R/W disk as far as I know.

Eric    

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:01:40 +0930 "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
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> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:10:13 -0800, Eric S. Emerson wrote:
> 
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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> > Hi Greg M.,
> >                  I find that sometimes after burning
> > a CD that it appears blank and the CD/DVD drive
> > has to be re-initialized. Sometimes just opening and
> > closing the drive tray fixes it...other times a reboot
> > is required.  I assume it has something to do with
> > the driver.  It happens with both my DOS 486 computer
> > and W$n computers...and...it happens with both
> > brand new drives and older drives
> 
> I have tried reading the disk with the burner drive and also with 
> the
> non-burner drive on the same computer, and each time it comes up 
> empty.
> 
> Except that if I try to burn it again, I get the message that "this 
> disk
> contains data. Do you want to erase it?" and the same message again
> after it has been fast-erased and fully-erased...
> 
> Got real doubts about the software I'm using, or possibly the 
> hardware,
> or possibly both.....
> 
> Unfortunately the CD drive on the DOS comp has now ceased to read 
> any
> disks. I may have to open it up and manually clean the laser as the
> cleaning disk will not work under DOS.
> 
> (BTW, I am using proper read-write blank disks)
> 
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