[Tfug] Any tips for diagnosing possible hardware problems?

[Adrian]

On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:58, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
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> Based on another reply, I guess that does not mean the cd drive was
> bad. I had no idea that a cd could work on one drive and not another.
> How disturbing!
> 

It may not be "bad", just a bit tempermental about disks... some are. I had a 
CD/DVD drive that would not/rarely recognize as valid a CDR/DVD-R with less 
than ~100MB of data on it... It would always claim it was blank. I always had 
to burn a 100MB zero file onto any small CDR I made if I wanted to be able to 
read it, though it worked great once it "found" something. Other drives are 
partial to reading one type of CDR die contrast and not others.

Adrian