Topic: Burners on both computers have crapped out on me

[leehookem]

Neither will burn, nor even read a disc.  it's like the drive is dead.  I have the recovery discs for both systems, problem is, the computers won't read the discs.

anything I can do?  My laptop is a toshiba satellite l355d-s7810

[leehookem]

ok, I hooked up Terri's computer and in the process of copying the driver disc to a CF card.  That should work, right?

[Shadow_7]

Do you smoke, or have had any sort of dust producing contract work done?  It might just be a dirty lens.  Baring other influences power surge / llightning / excessive heat.  Are they both the same brand and model?  Any auto updates enabled?

[leehookem]

Dell Dimension 4700  Philips DVD8631 HH 16X DVD+/-RW
toshiba satellite l355d-s7810 (not sure of drive info)

[leehookem]

Well I got the Dell fixed.  Windows XP wasn't recognizing the drives.  I found a program called Microsoft Fix It.  Now to try it on the laptop.

[Shadow_7]

Age of the gear?

I've had two go out on me.  Mostly after two years.  Those that worked in the first place anyway.  The one on my compaq presario desktop is the best one I've had to date.  I'm not sure of it's specs (name / brand).  But it's been a real work horse.

According to cdrecord -scanbus: DVD A DH16A1L - KH15

Which appears to be some sort of LiteOn drive.  Litescribe, DVD dual layer (just now noticing that), and all that jazz.  A lot of people looking for firmware on it, but I've had no issues in linux with this drive.  A couple bad burns, but because I wasn't using -dvd-compat on video dvds.  Otherwise I've burned hundreds of discs on this one drive.

[leehookem]

Laptop is fixed with Microsoft Fix It.  Works fine.  As far as I know the desktop is fixed as well.  I turned it off (installing updates as well) and it is "stuck" installing.

[leehookem]

everything works like new!