Re: Is this how a CD writer dies?
From: Jim Chisholm (jim_at_electron.phys.dal.ca)
Date: 11/11/04
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:06:06 -0400
Kilian A. Foth wrote:
> From one minute to the other, my cd writer drive started to fail. Oh,
> cdrecord works normally and claims all is well, but invariably the
> disks produced will not mount, but lead to errors like
>
> hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: packet command error: error=0x30
> ATAPI device hdc:
> Error: Medium error -- (Sense key=0x03)
> (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x57, ascq=0x00)
> The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet command was:
> "00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 "
> cdrom: open failed.
> cdrom: open failed.
> cdrom: open failed.
> cdrom: open failed.
>
> Using CreateCD under the other OS produces disks that are just as broken.
>
> Do CD writers simply go south with no warning just like that? (It *is*
> four years old, admittedly...) Is there any point in even attempting to
> get it somehow repaired or should I just stop at the superstore on the
> way home for another?
>
>
Usually (at least in my experience) the problem is a cheap plastic mount
that houses the write-laser, after extended use or a long burn session
the heat from the laser will warp the holder, resulting in the laser
becoming out of alignment (and thereafter useless)
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