SCSI CD drive capable of reading CD-R

[Antonio Carlini]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> There's nothing special about the drive mechanism for SCSI CD
> reading devices by the way (compared to say IDE) - I've never
> known one that *won't* read CD-Rs, but just like IDE and
> laptop drives, it depends a lot on the quality of the CD-R
> media used in the first place. 

My SCSI RRD40 has had problems reading some CD-Rs and (IIRC)
absolutely will not read CD-RWs at all. I'm not that surprised
as I expect that RRD40s were long out of production well before
CD-Rs became popular.

I've used to have some issues with an RRD42 and CD-RWs too.

So there are certainly drives that are marginal with CD-Rs.

Antonio


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Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org