[ale] DVD woes

[PairOfTwins]

Stuffed Crust wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:09:03PM -0400, PairOfTwins wrote:
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>>My DVD-RW drive (NEC) stopped erasing CD-RWs consistently, and would not 
>>reliably mount CD-RW discs that it had previously written.  I've 
>>reseated the cable on both ends with no improvement.  The firmware is 
>>current, and I'm using the latest cdrecord version with a 2.6 kernel.
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>Is there updated firmware for the drive, perchance?
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Nope!

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>>Any thoughts?  The warranty is about up!
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>Chuck the drive and replace it.  The RMA/return process will cost you 
>half the price of a new better drive anyway, and be a lot more capable 
>to boot.
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Good point!  Think it cost about $80, but the equivalent is now way less..

> - Solomon [who just went through something similar]
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