Adaptec R-W troubles

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From: dw
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 16:12

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I have an Iomega ZipCD 650 8x4x32.  It has not really given me any 
troubles, except I find that I can no longer format new RW CDs.  I have 
tried a couple of different manufacturers (Sony, Maxell, and 
Packard-Bell.  The format fails after a couple of minutes with an 
'illegal start block address ...' (I can't catch the rest of the message 
as it vanishes really quickly.
I do notice that at no time in the first couple of minutes does the CD 
'burning' LED come on.
I tried some of my older Maxell CDRW discs, and they appear to format 
(but they have to go through an erase cycle first).

Iomega have not been a great deal of help.

I have uninstalled the Iomega DirectCD and Esay-CD Creator apps and 
re-installed.

I can't figure what is going on.

Can anyone help?

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From: dw <dw@nospamformeplease.com>
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Subject: Adaptec R-W troubles
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