[vox-tech] CDR annoyance

Ryan Castellucci vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:10:15 -0800


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On Sunday 24 November 2002 08:24 pm, Rod Roark wrote:
> CD burners frequently go bad.  I did have one that would not
> recognize that a disc was in the drive, which looks similar
> to your problem here.
>
> You might try seeing if it will _read_ a CD.

A Creative drive I had was like that. Only worked on the blue 650MB CD-Rs=
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Creative refused to RMA it, saying that I needed to use high quality disk=
s.

My Yamaha has given me not trouble yet. BTW, Don't buy Audio CDRs, the RI=
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gets part of the price (which is more expensive) of those. They are for a=
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recording devices (that refuse to record to data CDRs), IE, cd players th=
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let you burn mixes.

RMA/return your drive, and get a well reputed brand ike yamaha or plextor=
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think Lite-On is good too.

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