I don't know if anyone has suggested one of those lens cleaning discs, but it has helped with the DVD player and the SD. It is like a CD with little brushes glued on, not very expensive and a possible solution. On 7 Feb 2009, at 08:46, Andrew Tett wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. > > I am pretty sure that the disc I tried to write with on the PC was > one that I had failed to write with on the Mac. Since yesterday I > have tried once more. Two fresh discs wrote with no problem on the > PC while one fresh disc came up with "disc unreadable" when I put > the unwritten fresh disc in the Mac. I am not convinced that the > discs are faulty. None have failed previously on the old Superdrive > before that was replaced. > > My feeling is that there is something different about the new > Superdrvie. I was just interested to know if anyone has any > comments or ideas to add to this. > > A > > 2009/2/6 Jason Davies <[email protected]> > > Andrew Tett wrote on 6/2/09 at 06:49 > > >I have in the mean time tried to write on a Gold disk on our > Toshiba PC > >which has Easy Creator installed. This also failed to write. > > > >Does anyone think that there is something wrong with the drive, or > the > >disks? > > have they been left in the sun? DVD are more fragile than you > might think (there was some research a few years ago that hit > the press) and sunlight's a good way to mess them up. > > did you try writing at a slower speed? the other thing is to > make sure nothing else is happening on the computer. > > how many do yu have left? are they under guarantee? I would > think about taking them back if they have some kind of lifetime > guarantee (you could try, at least...) > > > > > Steve Clen-Murphy [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
