John Pierce wrote: >> >> I haven't seen anything in this thread that would suggest that the drives >> are from 2 different companies. Would you care to enlighten me as to how >> you arrived at that conclusion? I must have missed something. >> > I am not sure how he ciphered that out either, but they are two > different manufacturers. > > The failing drive is an LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4084N and the drive in > my machine is a MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-851S. FWIW, I've not had very much luck with LG drives. So, if you do have them replace it...go with the Matshita. I think I had 3 of them go bad in 2 years of light use. > I have thought about it some more and I am not going to swap the > drives, I am just going to insist that HP replace the drive. I mean, > it worked then it didn't. > -- Without ice cream life and fame are meaningless.
