CD only reads music or recordable cd's

17 Mar 2005 4:31 PM

ew.history

My Yamaha CRW-F1E cdrw does not recognize regular data cd's. It will
play music cd's just fine, and it can write just fine. Is there a
difference in the way music cd's are read vs. the way data cd's are
read? Does data require a greater roation speed or something?

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks,
Elie.

17 Mar 2005 6:29 PM

kony

On 17 Mar 2005 08:31:49 -0800, ew.hist***@verizon.net wrote:

>My Yamaha CRW-F1E cdrw does not recognize regular data cd's. It will
>play music cd's just fine, and it can write just fine. Is there a
>difference in the way music cd's are read vs. the way data cd's are
>read? Does data require a greater roation speed or something?
>
>Any ideas how to fix this?
>
>Thanks,
>Elie.

Can it read what it wrote? That is, if you write something
with it now or since onset of problem, can it read that?

Does the data cd not show up at all or show as an audio cd
(but of course with no audio to read)? Is it possible
you've been trying mixed mode CDs that have both audio and
data on them? That is, have you tried just a plain
application CD rather than only something like a game or
other CD that "might" have multimedia/audio tracks too?

If the drive had worked properly with same discs and no
changes to the operating system (nor cd related software
newly installed), most likely the drive is failing. You
could try blowing it out with a can of compressed air and/or
a clean install of the operating system, to rule these
things out.

17 Mar 2005 7:14 PM

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Thanks Kony.

It doesn't read what it writes, thats how I discovered the problem. I
couldn't believe it burnt 3 bad disks in a row, so I popped 1 of the
c'd in another drive and it worked fine.

At least some of the disks are not mixed mode. Doesn't seem to make a
differnce. Further, I also have Linux on that computer (in addition to
Windows) and it didn't work in Linux either.

The problem began when I was trying to write directly from windows XP.
That operation failed, and from then on the drive hasn't worked right.

I tried the cleaning routines and they were no help. I agree that the
drive appears to be failing, but I can't accept that. It should either
read, or not read. Too strange! It's 2 years old and had very little
use.

I think I'll have to try moving it to another machine and see what
happens....
Thanks,
Elie

17 Mar 2005 7:49 PM

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I fixed it. Oddest thing. How? See below....

Recently my old ps2 trackball mouse stopped working. So I replaced it
with an even older serial mouse. I had this strange idea that maybe
that was somehow affecting it. Well, without rebooting, I unplug the
serial mouse. Eject and reload the cd, and boom! IT WORKS! HOLY COW!

-Elie

17 Mar 2005 11:17 PM

kony

On 17 Mar 2005 11:49:54 -0800, ew.hist***@verizon.net wrote:

>I fixed it. Oddest thing. How? See below....
>
>Recently my old ps2 trackball mouse stopped working. So I replaced it
>with an even older serial mouse. I had this strange idea that maybe
>that was somehow affecting it. Well, without rebooting, I unplug the
>serial mouse. Eject and reload the cd, and boom! IT WORKS! HOLY COW!
>
>-Elie

Huh! That's a new one on me... any idea why?

18 Mar 2005 1:28 PM

ew.history

"Huh! That's a new one on me... any idea why? "

Well unfortunately it didn't hold. Now it works sporadically. Over the
weekend I will stick it in another machine and see what happens.