I am not sure why this is happening. But I have noticed that all cdroms are not equal. Some disks give out read error on some drives, where as they work on other drives. Your problem may not be related to debian/win/mac, but it may be related to that particular cdrom drive on debian.
Compatibility of read only disks are much better across drives.
Another suggestion is that, when you write cd/dvd disks, do it at a lower speed, at least this gives better compatibility across readers
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 17:50, James Stuckey
<jhstuckey@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Anand Sivaram
<aspnair@gmail.com> wrote:
Replying to debian-user......1. Take the cd (you burnt with this drive) and try to mount it using another cdrom to see the quality of that cd.
2. Take a readonly cdrom/cdr(written from some where else) and try to use it in this drive to see how the drive works.
1) I was able to read the CD on both windoze and OSX without issue.