At 01:12 AM 3/27/99 , you wrote:
>I have a IDE Mitsumi CR-2801TE ....flashed with the latest
>firmware.....that is about 9 months and 75 burns old. It is slow but
>reliable and I have never had a problem with burning data CDs until a
>couple of days ago. The burner locks up during the burn..usually toward the
>end. After the first bad burn I don't burn anything without doing the test
>first and it fails during the test.
>
>First I checked the cable and power connection...I swapped out the ribbon
>cable to be sure it was good.....no change.
>
>Then I removed and reinstalled...re configured EZ CD Creator Deluxe 3.5b.
>no change.
>
>Then I tried a different media and got a successful burn and I thought OK
>..bad media. But with the next burn I am back to the same problem...and
>then inexplicably I get a successful  burn  ....maybe on a few meg
>directory ...
>
>EZ Creator doesn't give any warning messages and I have to fight my way to
>a restart of Win98 after it locks.
>
>I think this is a problem with the burner OR some bad file in the
>OS..however I am not having any other software or OS problems.
>
>Has anyone seen this sort of behavior before ? Any idea....solutions ?

I had a very similar situation occur with a JVC 2x4 CD writer last fall.
The symptoms were quite the same and it turned out that the drive
was just warn out.   I had the option of returning the drive to be
reconditioned or buy a new drive.   I opted to buy a new 4x6 Panasonic
drive.   As soon as I installed the new drive, it worked perfectly.

I wish I had better news for you, I know these drives are not cheap.
That is my experience.

                 Bob Wright
       The NOSPIN Group, Inc.
http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org

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