CD exploded in Sony DVD burner

[detyabozhye]

Well, all it took was a little faith and a screw driver. I took it apart, and found three or four more peices and one or two of them were jamming the mechanics. Praise God, it works perfectly now. (In case you're wondering, I did pray before going in.)

[detyabozhye]

BTW, did anyone else except me and DeadEnd have this happen to them?

[DeadEnd]

Well he must be on your side, mine was "shot" litterly to pieces.
Got a refund though, after much debate although I did have a tinge of guilt.

[detyabozhye]

LOL, don't u just love refunds?

[WildTangent]

Happened to me once, same story as Deadend, the drives case was dented so much, I couldn't pull it out of the case o.o Well...I got it out eventually, but it involved ramming it from the back with a stick through the vacated power supply hole.

-Wild

[detyabozhye]

Wow. O_O

[Iandefor]

That's amazing. I've never heard of having a disc explode in a disc drive. I wasn't even aware that such a thing was possible... weird.

[gravediggers]

Yeah, that's why you don't see them going any faster than they do.

[psusi]

I've never seen a disc fly apart in the drive before, but I know recent drives limit their speed, at least by default, because that can happen at excessive speeds with cheap media.

I also had a Sony DVD burner, model 710A. The red laser crapped out last week so it would only recognize dvds, not cds. I got a new 810A and it freaks out when I try to format a cd-rw in packet mode with it. It returns an invalid sense code and then won't eject the disc or respond to any other commands untill reset. Updating the firmware didn't help.

In both cases, Sony tech support has been utterly useless. They just replied with a default form asking for the standard information, which I had already given them. I replied saying that I had already given them that information ( it was in the quoted message they sent back to me ) and never heard back from them.

As a result of this, I'm returning the new Sony drive and have ordered a sweet sata plextor that should be here tomorrow. I won't be buying Sony drives again.

[detyabozhye]

Plextor and Pioneer make the best DVD burners, far as I remember. Sony seems to be getting worse, must be cuz they need to eat more sushi.