[ale] DVD woes

[J. D.]

If you haven't already, trying a new IDE cable may be helpful. 
Alternately you could try slaving it to the HDD to see if it's a
channel issue on the motherboard.

J. D.

On 6/29/05, Stuffed Crust <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:
> 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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