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Re: RE: DVDRW on its way out?

goeppingen — Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:42 pm

Author: goeppingen

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:42 pm

Rhakios wrote:

nordle wrote:

I've had the drive (GSA-4081B)

Yep, that's one of the two that died on me.

I had pioneer 8x for four years and few months ago change to lg 52x is still working cross the finger.

RE: Re: RE: DVDRW on its way out?

wyliecoyoteuk — Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:10 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:10 pm

My first CDRW/DVD combo (Ricoh, �115) lasted 5 years, My first DVDRW(Liteon, �45) lasted 2 before it started giving errors on anything but CDs .
Now I've got a Sony, cost �35 or so, works fine, 3 months old.
Shortest lived DVDRW, Sony, can't remember the price, killed by an exploding WindowsXP Pro install disc in a workstation build at work, 2 weeks old!

Re: RE: DVDRW on its way out?

Rhakios — Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:49 am

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:49 am

nordle wrote:

I've had the drive (GSA-4081B)

Yep, that's one of the two that died on me.

RE: DVDRW on its way out?

nordle — Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:48 am

Author: nordle

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:48 am

I've had the drive (GSA-4081B) since March 2004 (when I put together this 64 box), which surprised me a little, cost �70. I've just bought a new NEC drive (ND-4550), one with the lightscribe thingy, whatever the new version of that is called, cant remember.
I didn't buy it for that reason, I got it because its silver, supports DVDRAM and got good media compatability reviews etc etc cost me �23!

LiteON are pretty good, ALL of my LiteON drives from the last 4-5 years are still working fine (12x CDRW etc)

I still think a simple electronics product like this should survive more than 2 years, especially as its only burnt 30-40 DVD's in that time. Oh well, the new drive was only �23 and is faster.

RE: DVDRW on its way out?

shifty_ben — Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:50 pm

Author: shifty_ben

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:50 pm

I had a CDRW die the day after the warranty expired, the company would not do anything about it, I guess they were within their rights, but its pretty bad customer service in my eyes

RE: DVDRW on its way out?

nelz — Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:46 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:46 pm

My first DVDRW drive, costing nearly �400, expired some 363 days before the warranty ran out, but only one day before a deadline

RE: DVDRW on its way out?

Rhakios — Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:24 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:24 pm

Yes

RE: DVDRW on its way out?

shifty_ben — Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:35 pm

Author: shifty_ben

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:35 pm

Yea my LITE-ON is doing fairly well, touch wood, have you noticed how its nearly always exactly a month after the warranty expires?

RE: DVDRW on its way out?

Rhakios — Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:21 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:21 pm

I wouldn't be surprised if it's on its way out. I have had a couple of duff ones, failing not long after the warranty expired, indeed with similar messages to those you give above.

So far my LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S seems to be working pretty well though, fingers-crossed.

DVDRW on its way out?

nordle — Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:19 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 6:19 pm

I presume this is bad, it happens with most discs, not all, but most of them. Just when trying to read the drive:

hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 148
hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 152
hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 156
hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 160
hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown

Its annoying as I've only 1 dvd drive, so I tried using hdparm -d 0 /dev/hdd
And it worked!

I can now read media again, but its slooooow. Will it last not using dma for a while, or hours? Any guesses as to what might have happened?
(its knackered )

I didn't even use it that much re: burning stuff, I guess they are pretty cheap now though.