Re: DVD writer about to die???

After replacing Jaimie Vandenbergh with a small shell script on Tuesday
10 Jan 2006 13:20, the following appeared on stdout:

> Not necessarily - I just had to fix the reader in one one of my Sun
> boxes, by opening it up and twiddling the laser power gain trimming
> pot by a sixteenth of a turn or so (they're usually near the laser
> head somewhere)

Thank you, Jamie. I forgot to try that on a laptop DVD writer that
refuses to read even its own discs, since I haven't seen gain pots on a
LASER head for ages. This one happens to have them, and is now reading
100% all formats after a bit of a "tweak".
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Chronos

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