[Pc_Support] CD-DVD Drive Question

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Austin (Ozz) Denyer" <ozz at ozz.is-a-geek.net>


On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:51:34 -0400, "Bryan J. Smith"
<b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>
> I just wanted to follow-up why sometimes you can read CD or DVDs, but
> not the other -- or possibly different CD and/or DVD formats but not
> another.

Following on from TheBS's points...

Another thing that can make a difference is the color of the CD.
Seriously.  This is generally only an issue with CD-R and CD-RW, but I
have seen cases where a drive would flat refuse to read media of
certain colors.  Weak lasers can have issues with the lower
reflectivity of some colors.

Regards,
Ozz.

Thanks for the info. All the Windows CDs were originals. The Linux DVDs
came from magazines (We installed 5 different distros from DVDs that day
and all worked), Linux CDs were printed by Ubuntu or burned by me.
Best I can tell, it's just CDs that won't install. It will be interesting to
see if
a new drive fixes the problem.
 --
Thanks for all the help. Great list.

Bradley