reading media in drives other than the one they were burnt with

[overtheradar]

So my old lg cd burner kicked the bucket a few months ago and the new drives I have bought since have trouble reading about 35/40% of the media burnt by this drive. Likewise when I had the unit I would lend cds to other people who had trouble copying the disc but the LG burner would read it without a hitch.

Anyone else have this problem or know a solution. Im thinking I should keep an eye out for other drives of the same model sold second hand?

 

[redbeard1]

I've seen it in old drives, 8x or below. It more of a problem with 2x and 4x drives. I've also seen, in the old days, that regular cdroms wouldn't read a certain burned disk but another cd burner would.

That said, then yes, is it very possible that the burner was burning in such a way that other drives may not read it properly. Even another drive of the same model may have trouble with the old disks. There may have been something slightly off in that drive, that might not be in a similar drive.

Another possibility is the quality of the cds to start with. I've seen dirt cheap cdr's do what you describe also.

You probably are going to have to find a drive that can read most of the old ones and then make new copies.

 

[Gannon]

Another reason why one should consider RAID 5 and just fork out the $$$ for a bunch of drives, I'd love to see a price ratio of Burners + discs bought/refreshed over buying additional hard drives over time.