P3D Re: Back from the DDDead - Part II

[Tom Hubin <thubin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Dr. T.

> At the same time I bought an
> external Philips CD ReWritable unit for my wife.  I thought this would
> solve my backup problems too.
> 
> I installed it in her computer with absolutely no problems.  Then I tried
> to install it in mine.  Fatal error during installation!  Finally, I got
> around that, but something was wrong and while things appeared to be
> working fine, the CD unit would go nuts and ruin the CDs.
>
> My computer problems appear to be solved (fingers crossed).  Only one thing
> bugs me:  The CD-R's that I am now creating cannot be read by my computer's
> CD-ROM even though they can be read with by other Pentium of the same era
> that I tried.  I am going to buy a faster CD-ROM unit tonight that can read
> both CD-R's and CD-RW's.

My Philips 2600 works well with CDs that have a blue writing surface.
With a green surface some CD readers won't read it. I have not tried the
gold surface. Philips recommended that when some of my customers could
not use the Maxell green surface disks that I shipped.

Last month I upgraded my 80486/33MHz to a Pentium/150MHz. Everything
works except my Philips 2600 CD writer. The Adaptec CD Creator software
that came with the CD writer will not recognize my Philips Writer. I
have had to go back to my 80486/33 to get some CDs made and shipped.
Philips says that the machine is too fast for the software. I argued
that they should then upgrade my software under warranty. They tried to
say that a Pentium 150 was too modern for the software a year ago. I
pointed out that the Pentium 150 has been out several years now so they
were shipping obsolete code.

I won the argument 2 days ago. Now I need to send in some paperwork and
they will send me newer software that they were including with the
writer as they were phased out. No guarantee that it will work. If it
does not work then I will be shopping for new software for the writer.

Tom Hubin
thubin@xxxxxxxxx


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