On Sunday 01 January 2006 8:45 am, ka1ifq wrote:
I had similar problems when writing CDs, on a boot the drive was there and would function, later the drive would disappear. I finally decided to replace the drive, all problems went away. I did have problems reading some of the CDs I made, but originally thought I just had a couple of bad disks. Mike..
And along these lines _always_ check the firmware version of the CD/DVD device itself. Check at http://www.CDFreaks.com for your brand/model and make sure you have the latest firmware. They have links to the manufacturer's firmware updates as well as third party firmwares for some devices. They've helped me fix lots of different CD/DVD devices that had lots of different CD/DVD reading/writing problems. Stan