🚀 go-pugleaf

Phil Read wrote:
> 
> I've just taken delivery of a Yamaha CDRW 4x2x6 from Mac and More and I'll
> be buggered if I can get it to work properly.
> 
> I've plugged it in, it's there on the SCSI chain, Toast is installed but
> whenever I try to write anything to it, it goes through the motions and
> sometimes gets right to the end but it always throws up some kind of error
> often listed as a hardware error to do with sense keys and track following.
> So far I've got 2 unusable CDRW's(they now just give errors or crash when
> inserted) and as far as I can tell a CDR that can't be seen by the Mac but
> Toast is quite prepared to try and write to again!
> 
> I'm of the opinion there is a problem with the drive(obvious?) because
> I've gone back to the Apple CD driver from using FWB and I've tried
> writing a CD with the extensions off and I still get errors.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated before I phone and get them to pick this
> drive up and replace it :-(.

Try it on its own i.e. with no other devices on the SCSI chain. Sometimes
(well, often actually ;-) ) poor connections mean that a device has problems
even when it's "working" oaky.

If so then it's a matter of fiddling with the cables to find a good combination.

Regards,

-- 
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire
England
bh@granby.demon.co.uk