Re: broken cds: why?

From: berto (berto1981nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/02/04 

Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 22:59:04 +0100

Jacob Westenbach ha scritto:

>
> From your description, it seems that the record/read head(s) of your
> burner
> are out of alignment. Not a problem if the media being recorded is to be
> used in the same drive. A major PITA if the media needs to be useable in
> other machines (apparently your situation).
>
> It _may_ be possible to adjust the heads in your burner, but I am not
> familiar enough with the internals of these drives to offer any way to
> determine this or accomplish the feat if it is possible. The simplest
> solution is to just replace the burner.
>
> JW

Thx for your advice.
But as I wrote, I can't read the defective mediums also with the burner that
make them. I only get a lot of scsi errors instead of ide errors.
If it's an heads calibration issue, how could be that 2 cds, successively
made without rebooting the machine, results 1 good and 1 bad?

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