-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chance Platt wrote:
<snip> >> I would still like to know why the Sony drive would not write (it did >> read) in the Gigabyte box and fix it if possible. Could it be a >> firmware problem? > > Google is your friend here, but by my experience, most likely not. Before swapping the drives I googled the error message originally received. I saw lots complaints about it but nothing about how to fix it. It was lack of the latter which caused me to swap the drives. > This is an obvious hardware problem. It is a common failure mode for a > drive to stop burning or burn intermittently and continue to otherwise > work. Also common is for burnable media to go bad, or a particular > combination of drive and CD media to not work. Useful to know, and to watch out for. > It would be interesting for you to try burning from the other computer > with the non-working drive, and to try new media of a different brand. > > At least here in the US, a new drive costs roughly twice a smaller pack > of CDRs. In the interest of time and cost, it may be easier to replace > the drive altogether. Yes, and that is exactly what I did -- buy a new drive for the other box when it is updated to a dual core. Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAk0bcIwACgkQlNlJzOkJmTf5gACeOlq4G/ySe0gmGniAr9zrABEV UxkAniWxxxeOzXuOBCoyh+yzwFQZAv7a =hiPM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d1b708d.50...@heard.name
