17 Apr
2005
17 Apr
'05
2:35 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
There's nothing special about the drive mechanism
for SCSI CD
reading devices by the way (compared to say IDE) - I've never
known one that *won't* read CD-Rs, but just like IDE and
laptop drives, it depends a lot on the quality of the CD-R
media used in the first place.
My SCSI RRD40 has had problems reading some CD-Rs and (IIRC)
absolutely will not read CD-RWs at all. I'm not that surprised
as I expect that RRD40s were long out of production well before
CD-Rs became popular.
I've used to have some issues with an RRD42 and CD-RWs too.
So there are certainly drives that are marginal with CD-Rs.
Antonio
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