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Re: DVD burners have stopped writing

From "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject Re: DVD burners have stopped writing
Date 2012-02-08 11:55 +1100
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Frank Williams wrote
> 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? 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.

> CD & DVD burners have a limited life..

You hardly ever see both fail to write simultaneously and still read fine tho. 

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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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