----- Original Message ----- From: "Chadley Wilson" <chadley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "fedora-list" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 7:14 PM Subject: K3b blew my writer (5 of them) > Hello PPL > [snip] > Now this is going to freak you out as it did me. After several attempts > at getting k3b to make more than one copy, It blew my writer. Not a > problem I replace the writer and it works ok! and then I tried again to > do multiple copies and again after much trying it blew the writer again. > I am now on my 5th writer. shees! > Check with the drive manufacturer and see if you come up with anything. You didn't say what the hardware was, but several boxes of blank DVDs I've gotten lately came with a card warning that certain models of Pioneer DVD writers could be destroyed by writing DVD-RW/DVD+RW discs without a firmware upgrade. It sounded crazy to me, but I guess it happens. It's a long shot, but maybe your drives have a similar problem. I'd also check ventilation. These drives are known to get pretty hot when burning.
