Re: "Wrong medium type" from growisofs...

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

"Christian Henz" <christian.henz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/18/06, Christian Henz <christian.henz@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Would this be an indication of the drive being broken?
> >
>
> Case closed. I bought a new DVD burner, and the good ole Ricoh is
> already on its way to some recycling center. I had opened it up and
> cleaned the lenses but that did not help either, so good riddance :-)

Most likely, the laser has been worn out.

Jörg

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