I must admit I had not considered the kind of fault that you've described. But doubt it, since I can boot successively from one partition to the other now that I've loaded the clean new OS 9.04 system folder on one partition, and then back to the OS 9.2.2, and find that the burner works under the lower OS but not on the higher, regardless of time or temp.
I was more concerned that I'd damaged the card or burner, since they'd been stored in their cases for about 3 months after I'd take them travelling over the holiday, and not used them since. But during that three month period the only other variable was that I'd upgraded the System to the newest iteration of said classic operating system. > > Did you consider a hardware fault? > I had trouble using my external hard drive (in a FW/USB enclosure) > when using my Newtech FW PC-Card. Sometimes writing to the drive > produced a "write error" only. > After playing around with several system components a came across the > fact, that everything works good right after switching on the > Wallsteet in the morning: It seems the temperatue has a negative > effect on the Firewire-PC-Card; when I put the card in the fridge for > a while everything goes well (for a moment until it warms up)... :-( > > > Martin -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at <http://roadtools.com>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
