Andrew Tett wrote on 7/2/09 at 08:46 >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. >
It does sound a bit unfortunate. I would check with whoever supplied it for the exact model and ask whether this sounded right to them. Really you need another identical one to check against -- they might be willing to use another machine to see if the disks burn there, and then be willing to look at whether what they suppliedis faulty. >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...) >> >> >>> >> > >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
