ACER CD-RW works when it want too. Have to reboot sometimes.

This seems to be the common problem with everyone's CD-RW drive it seems. My new ACER CD-RW drive only works about 10% of the time, i.e. can't see there's a blank disc in the drive and says device not ready. Well, This is the second new drive I have tried (different brands too) and I've switched every cable, switched location ( master/slave combo's), reloaded the Adaptec software, tried CDClone freeware, and it still does the same thing when I want to copy a disc???? It MAY work 1 out of 10 tries, I eve reboot and that doesn't work. This is very frustrating.

1. RE: ACER CD-RW works when it want too. Have to reboot sometimes.
lbyard Feb-02-02 10:26 PM
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>This seems to be the common problem with everyone's CD-RW drive it seems.
That hasn't been my experience. It's kind of hard to say more without information on the computer and operating system. Larry

2. RE: ACER CD-RW works when it want too. Have to reboot sometimes.
Twinhead Mar-23-02 04:09 PM
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Given the information you have given it is likely that the drive needs to be cleaned. (I mean the Laser lens)
A blank disk is not really blank!!
There IS info on the disk wich contain data of the capacety and a pre-written Guidance Track.
A written CD contains much more contrast in reflections than a blank CD.
Therefore a dirty Laserlens meight be able to read standard and recorded disks, while unrecorded disks are unreadable.
Victor.