Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:05:14 -0500 From: R Farrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: juststeals.com /Faint hope In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 11/11/03 0:23, "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
I just got a "refurb" SCSI Yamaha cd/rw 4x4x16 unit a CRW4416S from Justdeals.com and it seems to be faulty. I havnt tried to burn anything as yet as the unit doesnt seem to play back any cd very well, it skips from track to track and stops in the middle of a track and no amount of cleaning the cds seem to help I have played the cds in the other cd player and they are fine.>
You probably just need to flash the firm ware. Granted you already checked termination, cabling, extensions, etc.
<http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/computer/engfirm/mac/ms4410j_e.bin>
http://www.yamahamultimedia.com/yec/helpcenter/customer/help_mac/4416SZ_Mhel p.html
thanks for the recommendation to flash the firmware I am not sure what this does but it is now flashed.
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third week part time update
the cds that did not play well still do not. I have drenched them with cleaning fluid and have confirmed that they do play perfectly on other cd players No doubt there. They are consistent however in where they do not play or skip, In other words the problems are reproducible (sp?) The other factor is that an old system 8 disk and Norton disks are the only disks the unit will boot up from and recognise and this is fairly dependable. With autoplay selected no audio cd will start playing until I have ejected either the system 8 or NU disk and reiloaded the audio disk and it does not appear on the desktop although drive setup sees the drive.
The recommendation to clean the laser or the tracks seems like the next step but it is an expensive experiment for such a cd/rw. It will cost more to get the cleaner disk etc than the unit cost 8(
If the problem with each disk occurs exactly at the same point in playing each time then surely this must mean something? And if the only disks it will recognise on start up are non audio disks then is this significant? Is this just a case of cleaning something? This is a refurbished unit SURELY it was cleaned by JUSTDEALS when they refurbished it? Or am I being naive again?
Thanks again everyone Its getting closer to the bin by the minute!!
Michael
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