Subject: Re: Install on Performa 61xx
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 14:50:37 MST
"... The burner that I used to make the discs is actually an internal SCSI,
andI tried that one in the mac. It didn't work either. That doesn't much
sense, considering that it was the drive that MADE the disc. ..."
Well, there's a lot of ways to screw up a burn besides hardware problems.
Check this link and see if it helps point to anything:
Generally, older CD drives (especially 1x, 2x and 4x) may have problems
reading CDR; some drives newer that that will read CDR but not CDRW. The
short answer is an original CD laser can't see the info reliably and a
different design (wavelength) laser is needed to read multiple formats. In
some cases this can be a problem with drives made as recently as 3 years
ago; new production are fine, and cheap, so you might want to consider an
el-cheapo replacement. If it's a SCSI internal, you might as well get a
burner considering the cost of a player alone.
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