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From: Jonathan Hendry
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 19:27

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I have an optical drive which was operating poorly and apparently
botched my two disks. I tried cleaning the drive (with the NeXT kit)
but I do not know if the cleaning worked, since both disks are bad.

When I put one in, if it doesn't spit it out immediately, the machine
says it needs to be initialized. All goes fine, for a while, then I start
getting read and write errors, and the machine says it couldn't write the
disk`s label.

Does it sound like the media is bad or is the drive still bad? Can an
optical drive permanently disable an optical disk?

Please respond via email. I have to go through all sorts of contortions
to read the NeXT groups at Drexel.

Thanks.

-- 
Jonathan W. Hendry
Drexel University College Of Information Studies
Anderson Financial Systems "Programmer-in-Exile" :)
tjhendry@queen.mcs.drexel.edu (No NEXTMail :( )

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