Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! 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 Eric On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:04:07 +0930 "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! > > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:39:30 -0600 (CST), Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Greg, > > Too bad you live on the other side of the planet, I could > > just give you a burner. > > I have a burner on the Win computer but for some reason it doesn't > work. > When I try to burn a CD everything looks to be working, and > afterwards > the CD shows signs of having something done to it, but when I try to > read it, it shows up as blank. At this stage I don't know whether it > is > a software or hardware problem, and I've been too busy to take the > machine to someone to sort it out. > > Another problem is that the CD-ROM drive on my DOS comp has been > giving > more and more errors, and now refuses to read any disks. I cannot > run > the cleaner disk on it as DOS refuses to read the cleaning part of > the > disk. This apparently is due to the presence of the brush on the > cleaning disk; when DOS meets any irregularity it just says that > this > part of the disk is unreadable and refuses to look at that part so > the > laser doesn't get run under the brush. > > One of these days when I have some spare time, I may get around to > sorting these problems out. But it is not really urgent as the > floppy > disk method may be slow but it gets there. And it looks like I am > not > the only one sticking with floppies <GGG> > > Go placidly amid the noise and haste, > and remember what peace there may be in silence. > "Desiderata", Max Ehrmann, copyright 1952. > > ,-./\ > / \ From Greg Mayman, in beautiful Adelaide, South Australia > \_,-*_/ "Queen City of The South" 35d 01'44"S 138d 32'13"E > v > Arachne at FreeLists > -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS -- > > ____________________________________________________________ Click to become a master chef, own a restaurant and make millions. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/PnY6rw2ROjfDDpgFtvlTPh8kf3DSj8WUWFJvyt0bUZp3AUy5P9aRe/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --