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Re: DVD burners have stopped writing

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Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote:
> I had a pair of DVD burners, both of which have stopped writing (they 
> can still read them though). They were IDE drives, and they were 
> connected to each other on the same cable. One of them had started to 
> spew out random errors in the event log, but the other one was fine. 
> Then all of a sudden I noticed that the random errors had stopped. This 
> would've been good if it meant that everything is working again. But 
> after I tried to burn a disk it didn't seem to work in either drive. I 
> tried removing the drive that had previously been shown as giving the 
> errors, but it didn't help, the other drive still won't write either.

> Is it possible that one drive could've damaged the other drive by being 
> connected to the same wire as the other? 

Not really, at least not without killing it completely. IDE
bus buffers are pretty robust.

> The software I'm using ImgBurn, 
> shows a lot of diagnostics messages, and all it shows when I try to 
> start a burn on the drive is that there is no medium inserted, and the 
> drive is not ready. The drive can detect other types of disks just fine 
> though, just not blank disks.

Have you tried these with a different computer? Also note
that dust and time kills writing-lasers, these may just have 
reached EOL. This may also be a software problem. 

Arno
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DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-06 21:22 -0500
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-07 16:14 +1100
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-07 09:18 -0500
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-07 08:41 +0000
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-07 09:23 -0500
      Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-07 17:16 +0000
      Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-08 07:00 +1100
        Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-09 14:22 -0500
          Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 08:32 +1100
            Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-02-10 05:44 +0000
              Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 17:07 +1100
                Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-02-11 04:16 +0000
                Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-12 03:03 +1100
                Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-02-11 17:33 +0000
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Frank Williams <FWilliams@happy.com.ru> - 2012-02-08 13:15 +1300
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-08 11:55 +1100
      Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-09 14:23 -0500
        Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-10 08:34 +1100
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@iinternode.on.net> - 2012-02-11 16:27 +1100
  Re: DVD burners have stopped writing Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-02-15 17:37 -0500
    Re: DVD burners have stopped writing "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-02-16 16:01 +1100

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