[Ti] CD drive won't write in X.2.3 -- bug or drive?

[Stephen Chakwin]

Just using the built-in, didn't want to spring for Toast, but will 
probably have to bite the bullet.  Thanks for the response.

Stephen
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 08:01 PM, b wrote:

>> My TiBook (550 less than a year old) CD drive is getting funny and I 
>> don't know if it's X.2.3 or the drive is failing.
>>
>> When I try to copy onto a CD everything seems fine until I try to 
>> burn the disc.  Then it verifies, tells me its burning, goes back to 
>> verifying and then ejects the disc partway through the process with 
>> an error message telling me that the process was interrupted.  The CD 
>> is then unreadable, either by the TiBook or by my flat-screen iMac 
>> running X.2.1.
>>
>> The drive reads both music and data CDs with no problem -- I tried as 
>> a test.  This makes me suspect that its some sort of X.2.3 burning 
>> issue.  Does anyone know anything about this and whether this is a 
>> known bug and if so whether there's a workaround (other than using 
>> firewire to connect to my iMac and use that for copying data while I 
>> wait for X.2.4 or panther to come out)?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Stephen
>
> Stephen,
>
> I'm looking at 200 CDs I burned in the last few weeks, on a Ti 667, 
> running 10.2.3. I almost always use Toast Titanium 5.2 when I burn 
> things here. I assume you're using Disk Copy, or the Burn service, > yes?
>
> Haven't heard anything 'negative' about Apple's burner, but everyone I 
> know uses Toast anyway, in Jaguar, at least.
>
> ~flipper
>
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