[muglo] Re: CD Burning
- From: Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:16:33 -0500
I should've mentioned that CD-R and CD-RW (or DVD-R DVD+R, DVD+-R,
etc.) are the first media that a failing CD-ROM stops recognising. If
the laser alignment falls out of whack the drive may still be able to
read pressed (commercail) CDs but fail to read home-made CD-Rs (and
especially CD-RWs). I once had an iMac that was failing in that way...
first it read CD-RWs intermittently, then it refused to read them
outright, then it stared having problems with CD-Rs.... you get the
picture.
Eric.
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:13:09 -0500, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Leith mentioned a few good software leads to follow-up... but, if you
> havve the CD burner hooked up to the iBook and you *are* capable of
> reading the CD on the burner but not the iBook's drive, there's a real
> chance that your CD rom is failing (an iBook clamshell is a 6 or 7
> year old computer afterall).
>
> iMacs of that era (Rev A, B, C) all had similar CDROMs that were (are)
> prone to failure and I wouldn't be surprised if the iBook has such a
> CDROM as well (laptop CD roms are light but also not quite as good as
> desktop CDROMs... iMacs employ laptop CDROMs b/c they're the only ones
> that fit into the funky designs).
>
> Eric.
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