Re: CD Burn

In article <57jopsF2d43ocU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Holden <black_hole@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 5-Apr-2007, "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This was common for the Yamaha drives. A very large proportion of
them seemed to fail after slightly more than a year, especially if
fitted internally in a RiscPC as they got *very* hot.

Yes. However, mine was an external one in a Yamaha caddy complete with
cooling fan so that excuse didn't apply.

Yes, I didn't mean to imply that the heat was a main cause of failure,
though it may have contributed. However it did tend to make CD writing
expensive because when they got hot, say, after writing a CD or two,
you'd have to wait for the drive to cool down and until it did you'd get
coasters.

Mine was initially mainly used for archiving LPs - so had lots of time to
cool between usage. It only managed about 30 CDs before failing. Rather
later I bought a secondhand slightly later faulty one off Ebay - having
first ascertained the SCSI side still worked, ie the SCSI ident was
recognised, and made two out of one. That still will burn ok - but I could
never get it to read properly.

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