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

[Kramer Lee]

Well, you could buy or borrow a USB CD/DVD reader and plug that in and
see if that can read it, and confirm that it works in a Windows
computer too.  I found one that runs completely from the USB port and
needs no wall wart for about $60 recently and it burned DVDs fine.  It
is great, just grab it off the shelf and plug it in and write, from
any computer.  Many CD/DVD writers from a few years ago run hot and
burn out just from sitting inside the machine, which is great for
selling more DVD writers.  I put a fan under my old ones but they
still would go out just sitting there, so this external one is great
as it only warms up rarely when I use it.

Can you read these CD/DVDs on a windows machine, at least not getting
"no disk" type messages on other machines?

On 6/29/10, Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  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
>
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