Cleaning the burner! Cleaning it? Never thought of this... How would I do this? OK I will look into this. Thanks.
It's amazing how much crud gets inside CD drives. And if any of the dust is on the laser optics or mirror within, it can make the drive fairly useless.
Check your local music store for cleaning kits. Basically it's a CD with itty bitty brushes attached. You add a couple drops of cleaning fluid, then play it for a bit.
You can also use a can of high-pressure spray air. Blow the dust out of the drive first, then use the cleaning CD. Might take several cleanings...
This burner is a Sony CDU926S. It is a blazingly fast max 2x.
I use an external JVC 2x burner.
It gets the job done. That's what counts.
The drive reported an error Sense Key = MEDIUM ERROR Sense Code = DX 02 No Seek Complete
According to my JVC's doc, that error means either the CD or the drive's optics were dirty. Use the cleaning kit a few times. And when you get ready to put a blank CD in, give it a quick inspection; blow any dust off etc. DO NOT rub the CD on a cotton cloth, etc. Besides the scratches, the static charge will make the CD grab dust from within the drive!
...Um... One other possibility: I got that error once when the problem wasn't the optics. The problem was that the directory it was trying to write was too big to fit on the free space of the disc. More files = bigger directory. I've found that on a 700 MB CD, I can put a dozen video files up to 690 MB worth. But if I put smaller jpgs and such, I have to cut it back to 650 MB or so.
Keeping track of the size of things is kindof a PITA. So what I did is create several virtual disks, using Disk Copy. Each is exactly 700MB HFS+. I put the files in there first, THEN burn the whole disk image via Toast.
PS. For my work, I sometimes have to supply CDs and I have been transferring files via zip disk to my daughter's ex PC which has a terrific fast burner in it. The drag is to do things in 100 MB chunks till all is assembled on the PC and the real big problem, absurdly slow transfer times from the zip to PC hard drive (the zip drive on that PC is a 250 MB and well, the 100 MB discs simply are absurdly slow... anyway ...)
I was doing this with 1 GB JAZ discs. Had to move the drive itself too, 'cause my housemate didn't have one on his PC! LOL
Burning hybrid discs with Toast is soooo nice.
At 10:31 AM +1000 10/24/2004, David Elmo wrote:
I have suspected the manufacturing of these CDs are for faster burning but I simply don't know. What do they do to a surface to make it capable of various burn speeds but not others? Some are 2x to whatever, others are 4x to whatever, my TDK latest batch says just "multispeed compatible"
Fewer defects on the higher speed discs, and slight better substrait materials. The high speed discs will work in your 2x burner just fine.
Interested in [Ron's] remarks about authoring extensions. What are these? In Quicktime you mean? Maybe I will turn all these off, I am sure I do not use them for anything I know, I have not got QT Pro yet...
According to Roxio's web site:
Roxio's Toast and Apple's Disc Burner have conflicting extensions.
In order to use Toast (or other 3rd party burning software), these
extensions should be disabled in the Extension Manager control panel:
Authoring Support
Disc Burner Extension
FireWire Authoring Support
iTunes Extension
SDAP Authoring Support
USB Authoring SupportBut I use Toast 3.5.7 regularly and have never disabled those extensions!
At 11:46 AM +1000 10/24/2004, David Elmo wrote:
>> I am thinking, maybe these blanks have some formatting on (mainly for PCs?)which my set up is uncomfortable with and as time goes on, this formatting is changing a bit to be compatible with modern computers and burners?
Doubtful. Just look at the virgin disc in the light. You'll see> that nothing has been burned.
You may be right, I simply don't know. I often see a slight "score" or ring of something a different caste of brightness, towards the outer edge, a few mm from?
Almost a mottled water mark looking ring... That's normal. What you want to look for is defects beyond that. The disc should be clean and shiney with no scratches etc.
- Dan.
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