I had an epidemic with Toshiba 8-speed CDs a few years ago.  After cleaning
the heads, reinstalling the drivers, putting the drives on as Master, then
Slave I finally resolved to not use the Toshiba any longer.  I'm sure that
the later ones don't have the same problems; however, the issues with not
reading a Disc that was being read fine on another machine but not on the
Toshiba was a real problem.

I also had problems with CDR media on the Toshibas not being read.

gary r. tennesen
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ronald G Jobe <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 7:37 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Uncooperative CD-ROM drive


> I'm trying to install a new video card (3D Starfighter) into a customer's
> machine.
> However the Toshiba CD-ROM won't read all of the installation disk.  It
> reads the
> directory, but then says that the folders don't have any files in them!
> I can read
> the installation CD on other machines, but not this one.
>
> I'm not too concerned about getting the video card installed, but more
> about the
> odd way this CD-ROM is reading the disk.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
> Ron Jobe


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