On 02/18/2010 09:41 AM, Cottrell, Eric wrote:
Hello,
I search the archives and found a message I sent about the 600 DVD Drives to
jog my memory. I ran into this problem and had to buy a newer drive and swap
the plastic pieces.
If it is the 600 2x DVD then it does not recognize DVD-R.
If it is the 600 6x DVD then it does read DVD-R but has problems with DVD-RW.
FWIW, I have a 600X with the 6x DVD drive. Mine never read any
recordable DVD, even when it was brand new. If you don't need to boot (a
600 series) from it, I suggest an external drive. Otherwise, a new
internal drive from a third party.
Chris
73 Eric
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Philip Kiff
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:44 PM
To: 'ThinkPad List'
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad 600 Optical Drive
Simon Royal wrote on February 17, 2010 18:44 (EDT):
I took out the original cd drive as it wouldnt even pick up
a Windows
cd. So I popped in a dvd drive [...] I am wondering what is
up with my
machine as it still has troubles booting.
When you say that you "popped in a dvd drive", do you mean
you put in one of the DVD drives that originally came with
the 600 series? At this point, those drives would be at least
10 years old. And they were not that great to begin with. In
particular, many of them had problems reading dual-layer DVDs
and they could be pretty finnicky about CD-RWs.
To eliminate the drive and disk as potential culprits, you
should replace the drive with a newer (new within the last
year or three) drive, and you should use a freshly burnt,
single-layer, CD-R (not CD-RW).
Phil.
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