On Thursday, Sep 5, 2002, at 20:10 Europe/London, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

> In a message dated 9/5/02 12:03:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> It worries me that both the disks it did it with a lot were my OS X
>>  install disks for 10.1.3 and 10.2. Do Apple use a cheap manufacturer
>>  for their CDs or something? I notice they make my iBook vibrate 
>> really
>>  badly too, does that mean the CDs are badly balanced?
> -------------------------------
> It appears that for some reason the beam head isn't tracking properly 
> or is
> picking up invalid data. That's what the drive's software seems to be 
> telling
> you indirectly.

You mean it's having read trouble? That COULD be because it's dirty. I 
cleaned a great deal of cruft out of the machines inside and off of the 
CD tray when I first got it. Maybe I disturbed the dust and it got onto 
the lens? I have a lens cleaner somewhere in this hell-hole - I'll give 
it a once-over with that and see what happens.

I still think it's Apple's cheap ass mass produced CDs ;)

> Have you initialized a new RW disk, copied data to it, and played it 
> back? That's the acid test.

I would, but I don't have a CD-RW to had :( I'm curious though, how 
does that make any difference? Is it because RW disks are harder to 
read?

-- 
Mark Benson

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