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  From: Branko Bratkovic <branko@senet.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:46:25 +0930

Re: Looking for CDRW Master burners.

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 09:53, Adam Towill wrote:
> Sony has the worst cd devices in existence!!! Avoid them at all costs!!!
> Never had anything but bad experiences since my first CRX-140E drive!!!

I second that!  My CRX140E is a complete lemon! 

1. When ever I swap CDs (eg installations from my 8CD debian set) it hangs 
for about a minute upon each change causing the kernel to spit out device not 
ready messages.

2. It didn't like to slave with my older HDD.

3. Just a few days ago, I opened a box of CDRW and it wouldn't write to the 
first two that I tried (but it could be a bad batch, must try them on another 
machine).

I thought that buying Sony would be a good thing.  They make the best 
monitors, their VCRs are amongst the most reliable (according to Choice) and 
their HiFi gear is sort of respectable. How could their CDs be such rubbish?

-- 
Branko


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ant" <fineales@ozemail.com.au>
> To: "Michal Mienik" <Michal.Mienik@stratco.com.au>
> Cc: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 3:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Looking for CDRW Master burners.
>
> > On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 14:40, Michal Mienik wrote:
> > > The CDUs are quite old so I'm curious as to why they are still
> recommended.
> > > All CDRW drives tend to age (I've had a Yamaha and Ricoh slowly die
> after 18
> > > months of light usage).

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