[Tfug] CDs: no medium found, DVDs work (sometimes)

[Zack Williams]

>  I would entertain the idea that this is a bad drive if all I had were
> a single system failing, but it seems extremely unlikely given that
> all three systems failed, and even more unlikely that they all failed
> around the same time. I'm pretty convinced this is software.

Actually, the fact that they're the same drive makes it seem more
likely to be hardware to me - I've had parts bought in quantity all
fail at the same time with the same problem due to manufacturing
defects  (this is really fun when it's multiple disks in a RAID
array...).

- Zack