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FOUR, I tired FOUR IDE DVD drives today. One of them won't read anything, one will only read pressed DVDs and burned and pressed CDs, one will only read pressed DVDs and nothing else, one reads pressed CDs and nothing else.
These things are fiiiickle.
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)@hp That sounds to me like the actual technical development of optical drives. Pretty sure each type of media was initially only supported pressed, and then they added tolerances so burned ones would work better.
@uliwitness two of them are DVD burners themselves. THEY HAVE NO EXCUSE!
@hp Ooops, missed that. 😅 Maybe just the laser losing adjustment over the years then.
Ryan Finnie@hp More than ever, we need a cheap DVD-ROM equivalent of the Gotek.
Danny Sutcliffe@hp and that's why I'm so happy that the N64 used cartridges instead of optical media
skab@hp Yes. Yes, they are. Those laser diodes surely are the worst example of silicon rot. And then there's media, burnt or pressed, that starts to rot from the outside in. When I think of it, I'm pretty sure I don't miss optical media at all.
@hp Wait, I still have a couple Canofiles, big stand alone document scanners that save on optical cartridges. Haven't looked at them for 15 years. Now I really want to know if those drives and disks are still fine...
@skab what kind of optical cartridges are that! Like CDs in caddies or something more exotic?
One of those magneto optical doohickeys?