[Laurence Payne]

On Thu, 03 May 2007 18:18:45 GMT, "Michael Wozniak"
wrote:

How old is the CD burner? Has the maker released updates for the
firmware,and have you installed them?

It's not as bad as it was in the early days of writable CDs when you
had to be picky about what media suited which burner. (We're not
quite out of those woods yet with DVD media). But media does vary,
and newer burners generally cope better.

The TDK burner is about 2 years old, never updated, no problems until now. I
may take Tobiah's suggestion and at least clean the drive as much as
possible. I'm still stumped as to why TAO won't work for the old disks but
DAO does...

Well, you might as well get any firmware update available. There's
nothing sacroscant about the one you got, there were doubtless earlier
versions. If TDK have released updates, they will doubtless be mainly
about supporting a wider range of media.

Of course, you may simply have a bad batch of media, or a failing
burner.

Ok, blow the fluff out. Further attempts at cleaning often do more
harm than good.