Jerry McBride babbled on about: > On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:51:49 -0400 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Not really a linux question. But y'all are experts on everything, so I'll > > ask... > > I've been having issues with the last 6 or 7 CD's I've burned. Excessive > > skips throughout. > > ---snip--- > > > The drive is a yamaha 6416 SCSI and I get the problem whether I burn at > > 6x > > or > > > 4x... > > God! I'll be flame bait for this one... > > I had a 6416s last for just a few months... I also had a 4416s that lasted > like... maybe 2 years or there abouts. From that experience I'll never buy > or recommend another yamaha anything... The 6416 would write cdr's without > a problem... but nothing could read them... not even the 6416 that > originally wrote the cdr... Real useful for backups. > > As for the 4416s... it won't detect the media being present... The last > disk it burned > was perfect in every way... the very next disk... "no media present"... and > that was > that. > > The next cdrw writer I get will be the cheapest IDE bastard that I can > find. That way if it turns belly up next month... all I'll miss is a $20.00 > bill instead of the $150.00 and $200.00 I spent on my yams... :') > > Incidentially, I buried my 4416s alongside my 6414s in the county landfill. > Who knows, maybe they'll keep each other company. > > Cheers.
a buddy had similar experience with SCSI yamaha drive. myself and 5 other buddies though swear by IDE yamaha... -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
