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Re: DVD burners have stopped writing

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Well, here's an update on this problem. I've now had a chance to test it 
out with different configurations. It's been suggested that I should 
test it with different IDE cables, I've now tried 3 different IDE 
cables, each one had the same problem with this drive. I then tested 
whether it was the motherboard IDE connection that was the problem here, 
so I remembered that my eSATA PCI-e adapter also had included its own 
IDE connector, so I moved the connection over to that connector. Same 
problem here as well, in fact, on this connector it can't even detect 
the DVD drive's model name!

So I'm thinking I've done sufficient due diligence and I can declare 
this drive dead. The only other thing I could possibly try is to put an 
IDE-SATA converter adapter on it, and try to run it through SATA. I've 
had success in the past with old IDE hard drives that looked like they 
were dying under native IDE, but after the SATA conversion they ran much 
better, but I think that may be getting little too pedantic at this point.

	Yousuf Khan

On 06/02/2012 9:22 PM, Yousuf Khan 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.
>
> Yousuf Khan

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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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