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Re: Failure of DVD/CD RW drives

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On 2015-04-19, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> On 04/18/2015 05:50 PM, faeychild wrote:
>
>> Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/18/2015 02:08 PM, Bit Twister wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:48:37 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This past week the activity level had resolved itself and I
>>>>> had time spare to test the disks I had made.All but one failed so
>>>>> I thought I better make them again and the new batch was just as
>>>>> bad.
>>
>> I have often wondered just how hot the laser gets during a burn and then if
>> you employ a series of consecutive burns, does  it cook slightly.
>>
>> If the laser is mounted in a plastic base it would not help either.
>
> 	Yes that is a possibility I think but the main problem is that
> the drive is not made for the heavy usage I inflict on it being a
> librarian for the SF-LUG.  I have used at least 100 DVD R/W plus
> CDs in the last year. My laser seems to be mounted on metal with a
> metal island for the positioning hardware about 3 inches wide with
> a larger piece of plastic around that and metal again on the bottom
> of the tray.
> 	Checking the external drive and find it has a lot more metal
> in its construction with metal surround replacing the plastic.If it
> had releases in the proper position and a SATA interface I would try
> to stick it in Optical drive slot.
>
> 	I just wanted to make people conscious of the problems that
> can arise with optical drives.

Have you tried cleaning your drive?  One time I found I was burning
bad discs - even though I could read other disks just fine - so I
opened up the drive, blew out the dust, made sure the lens was clean,
and it was as good as new again.

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Failure of DVD/CD RW drives Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-18 12:48 -0700
  Re: Failure of DVD/CD RW drives Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2015-04-18 21:08 +0000
    Re: Failure of DVD/CD RW drives Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-18 15:08 -0700
      Re: Failure of DVD/CD RW drives faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-04-19 10:50 +1000
        Re: Failure of DVD/CD RW drives Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-18 19:35 -0700
          Re: Failure of DVD/CD RW drives Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-04-19 17:52 +0000
            Re: Failure of DVD/CD RW drives Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-19 12:34 -0700

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