>What came to my mind (analogy from the floppy disk drive days) was - 
>could it be that the read heads on the burner drive are getting flaky and 
>when they're a bit off, they won't read (but the laser 'write heads' are 
>still in alignment fine)?

But both CD drives in the 9600 have their read laser go bad at the same 
time? And only go bad enough that only CDs burned since yesterday can't 
be read (all burned previously, or all other CDs work fine).

That would lean more towards the write laser being slightly off. I could 
accept that, and that coincidentally both drives in the 9600 are 
sensitive enough that they can't read the burned CDs now.

BUT, if that's the case, how do I explain the CD becoming usable after 
being read on a different computer? I would think if the drives couldn't 
read a CD, the CD would stay unreadable. Although, maybe it has just been 
a really really really amazing coincindence that the 9600 decides to read 
the CD after being read elsewhere, and it is just perfect timing of the 
9600 drives deciding to work. But since I can reproduce the effect every 
time, that seems unlikely (but then, the unlikely will probably be the 
solution here).

<sigh> I'm about to change the internal drive on the 9600 to see if the 
problem goes away. At least that will help narrow down if it is a drive 
problem or not.

-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>

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