On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:26 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Sunday 30 October 2005 00:34, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
To this list of recommendations I add LiteOn having had a CDRW and recently DVDRW they work. My usage is slight mostly backups about 300+ disks only caution generic CD media seem OK but Maxell brand about 10% coasters.
Not to sound pessimistic, Carl, but I would take that as a sign of trouble. I'm not particularly happy with the LiteOn CD-RW drive I got for our mail server. It wouldn't read the one of my Debian discs (quality media). It was number 13 so I just skipped it, but later, when the box was in the the server cabinet, now lying on its side, I tried again and it read it perfectly.
It wouldn't read the disc when the drive is lying flat, but on its side it does? Sounds fishy to me. The discs is known to be good. It reads perfectly on the dodgiest of old drives I have lying around.
Well I finished with those Maxcell and mow have the Fry's GQ generic brand and so far mo problems on them ditto their dvd-r in the LITEON dvdrw. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/