[ale] DVD woes

[Stuffed Crust]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:09:03PM -0400, PairOfTwins wrote:
> My DVD-RW drive (NEC) stopped erasing CD-RWs consistently, and would not 
> reliably mount CD-RW discs that it had previously written.  I've 
> reseated the cable on both ends with no improvement.  The firmware is 
> current, and I'm using the latest cdrecord version with a 2.6 kernel.

Is there updated firmware for the drive, perchance?
 
> Any thoughts?  The warranty is about up!

Chuck the drive and replace it.  The RMA/return process will cost you 
half the price of a new better drive anyway, and be a lot more capable 
to boot.

 - Solomon [who just went through something similar]
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