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In article <1d8h6al.1qqukom1wn385wN@firthcom.demon.co.uk>,
filter@firthcom.demon.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote:


>I have the same drive and I had a few problems when it was new, similar
>to yours and I now attribute it to beginner's lack of luck. Have you
>made sure that you have sufficient RAM allocated as cache? If you are
>short of it, and there is a data underflow then you get errors as
>reported. Have you tried writing to the drive in simulation mode?

I don't think this is the problem because it writes OK in simulation and as
I have plenty of memory installed I automatically upped the cache to
something ridiculous.


>As to the problem CD RWs, have you tried inserting them when Toast is
>the foreground application then erasing them? The Mac will crash if you
>insert them when the Finder is at the front, but Toast should inhibit
>the usual Mac attempt to read the disk allowing you to erase it.

Yep this is what I did. Here my Mac just offers to erase them but doesn't
crash. The 2 CDRW's I have tried to write can now not even be erased by
Toast they just give the same errors as before "Sense Key = Hardware Error,
Sense Code = 0x09, Track following error".

I retried a CDR disc this morning, 600+Mb of data and it simulated OK then
went right through the write process and failed somewhere in the
verification with the above error.

I refuse to put any more discs through it now :-((.




Phil Read
Worthing
West Sussex
UK

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