on 8/6/03 10:40 AM, Jackie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> I have an odd one involving burned CDs. >> Here are the players: >> Beige G3 tower/333mhz/384mg RAM >> OS 9.04 >> Adaptec Toast 4.13 (last version before selling it to Roxio, iirc) >> Yamaha SCSI 8x4x24 CD-RW >> oem 24x Atapi CD drive using Apple CD/DVD as the driver. >> > >> >> Problem: the OEM CD drive can mount, read, and copy from any commercial CD >> you put into it, as well as boot up from a system CD. It works just fine, >> except: it does not read any RECENTLY home-burned CDs. If I put in a >> home-burned CD (burned by the Yamaha) that I created several months ago, or >> a CD that someone else burned, it mounts fine; if I put in a newly-created >> CD (as in, within the last month or so), I get the error message "this disk >> cannot be read by this computer. do you wish to initialize?" (with the >> choice to init or eject). > > > I have a 266mHz Beige G3 Desktop also. I have seen many other posts in > Usenet about the flaky OEM CD Drive in the Beige G3's. Sometimes I've > found that a CD Drive cleaner will help, but eventually I gave up and > replaced it with a Cendyne. The Cendyne won't boot from an OS 9 or OS X > installation disk, but I keep the OEM drive around for those situations. > > To make a long story short, it's probably nothing you're doing wrong. > The OEM Matshita just can't read burned disks very well, or > consistently. I found that they worked sometimes. > > Jackie Jackie, what flavor of Cendyne do you have/recommend?
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