[Ham-Computers] CD and DVD Drive Issues

[Ron Youvan]

> When I went to backup the revised ARB file, I forgot that the backup was 
> on CD and put the CD into the DVD drive.  It wouldn't read it but 
> offered to try to "fix" it for me.  Fortunately, it was quite late 
> (probably part of the reason I didn't notice it was a CD) and I went to 
> bed instead.  Just now I was sitting here with the bad "DVD" in my hand 
> about to format a fresh blank DVD and just re-do the backup from scratch 
> when I suddenly saw that it was a CD.  Popped it into the CDRW drive and 
> it read it just fine.  :-)

   My DVD-RW reads and writes CD-R's and CD-RW's just fine,
you may have a very old DVD-RW drive.  (Plextor PX800A)
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    Ron  KA4INM - "Lazy people sleep in the daytime, I nap,
                   I'm not one of those lazy people."
                              -- Dagwood Bumstead 10-25-08