Re: failure to blank CDRWs (2.2.18pre15 smp ide-scsi hp7100i)

From: George (greerga@entropy.muc.muohio.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 17:28:43 EST


On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joerg Schilling wrote:

>However it may be a broken hp7100: I suspect that all drives ever
>made are now dead because of bad quality.

Mine still works as a reader. ;)

Attempting to actually write produces a lovely "power calibration failed"
and a coaster faster than you can blink. The kicker is that putting said
failed CD into a Windows NT 4.0 machine to burn will blue screen it.

-George Greer

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