Problem with my Toshiba CD-ROM

[Lackmusboy]

I´ve got a Toshiba XM-6102B CD-ROM player and it works all right with original CD-ROM:s. However, everytime I try to read a "home burned" CD I have to eject and retry at least 15 times before it works. Please help me out here!

[Brian48]

Nothing you can do about it. The Toshiba is a real POS when it comes to CDR's and CDRW's. I know, I have two of the exact same models myself, one 24x and one 32x. Best best is to have whoever make the burns for you, close out the burn sessions on the CD before giving it back to you. I also find that burning the CD in ISO format and sticking to a brand of blanks that you know that the CDROM has read before helps.

[drizzle]

I have a Toshiba 32x SCSI CD-Rom and I use Verbatim CD-R discs. I've never had any problems with it reading a disc...Could be just that particular model drive.

[Axel]

I'd agree with Brian -
Just make sure to ask your friend to
a) - use quality disks, not the cheapest
saving 20 cents on a disk you can't use doesn't save you anything
b) - make absolutely sure he burns in CD-R format which almost anything will read - CDRW has a very select group of hardware that will reliably read it.

Lastly, regarding cheap media and old CD's, somewhere between 4X and 24X drives, the CD industry learned the hard way that they had to do a much better job balancing their disks. A warped or badly balanced disk in a high speed drive can do the following -

cause the disk to vibrate making it un-readable

cause the disk to vibrate and damage the drive

cause the disk to vibrate and eventually shake the CD-ROM drive out of it's case

cause the disk to vibrate and skip ( music sounds choppy, programs won't run or hang during execution )

You'll notice it on some newer CD sterios as well - old CD music will be really load rotating in the player and sometimes you get a hum within the music, but they will play fine in older players with slower speeds.

[dexmax]

It depends on the Cd-r that is used. I use verbatim disks on my toshiba. I still have my old 4x toshiba from creative, surely it doesn't support cd-r's. But my 24x toshiba, can't recall the exact model, reads cd-r's very well and i never had a problem.