🚀 go-pugleaf

I also got a Ricoh 6200S recently.  

I tried it with toast 3.5 on the Mac and it works OK.  My Ist Mac backup
ever carried out at home in 11 years!

I always strip down the SCSI bus to the absolute minimum when I use it both
on the PC and with the Mac.  There's no point in having any other stuff
connected.

With CDR s/w in general I have learnt NEVER to put a disk in the machine
until you are asked to do so.  A couple of times I have generated coasters
by being too clever and putting the disk in early.


Sounds like a bad drive.


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In article <nospam-0202991931060001@kenner.demon.co.uk>,
nospam@kenner.demon.co.uk (Chris Orgill) wrote:


Hi,

I bought a Ricoh MP6200S externally cased SCSI CD-R/RW unit last
week. I spent two days having no luck whatsoever in writing CD-Rs
or writing and erasing a CD-RW. Toast would tell me everything was
fine in its simulation mode, then it would fail silently at some
random point in the writing process - not always at the start or
at the end. Toast wouldn't even reliably erase the failed CD-RW
media - it would set the Ricoh busy and then the Ricoh busy light
would change from red to green and Toast would never get notified -
result - machine hangs and needs a reboot.

I would see SCSI Hardware errors ( 0x15 Random Positioning Error)
and I even got to a state where the unit would make a loud buzzing
noise when trying to erase a failed CD-RW. 

Software: Toast 3.5.5

Machines: Quadra 650, Power Mac 7500 (+604e/233 card)

OS-es: 7.6.1, 8.1

that's 4 machine/OS combinations. I tried various SCSI ids,
minimal extension sets, you name it.

Anyone had any similar problems ?

Best,

Chris Orgill