CD burner woes

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 11:57 -0400, Jim Kuzdrall wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 October 2007 09:29, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> > I used to be able to burn CD's on this laptop, now I can't... 
> > 1) I can read CD's just fine.
> 
>     I had one like that, and it was the laser that was going.  They 
> often "degrade" rather than failing outright.  In such cases, the laser 
> can produce enough power to read but not to write.

Thanks for the tip.  I tested using Fedora7 Live CD on an identical
laptop and it burned a CD with no difficulty.  So it is a device failure
and not a software upgrade problem.
> 
>     If that is the case, you might use a microscope to look for very 
> light writing on the beginning track of the CD that failed to write 
> properly.
> 
> Jim Kuzdrall
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