vibration during recording

Hi, I have a 3 year old external SCSI burner, an HP 9210e, and it used to be
very quiet, but now it vibrates a lot during recordings, and it's very noisy
as a result, it sounds like a fridge. It could be the media, but the same
media burns fine on my newer Liteon, which has an anti vibration mechanism -
much quieter. Can vibration affect the quality of the burn? I don't have a
program which can test error rates, but music, video, and data CDRs burned
on my noisy HP still appear to be perfect.

Also, I have a subwoofer which is not magnetically shielded; should I avoid
storing CDRs near it?
Thanks.

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Hi, I have a 3 year old external SCSI burner, an HP 9210e, and it used to be
very quiet, but now it vibrates a lot during recordings, and it's very noisy
as a result, it sounds like a fridge. It could be the media, but the same
media burns fine on my newer Liteon, which has an anti vibration mechanism -
much quieter. Can vibration affect the quality of the burn? I don't have a
program which can test error rates, but music, video, and data CDRs burned
on my noisy HP still appear to be perfect.

Also, I have a subwoofer which is not magnetically shielded; should I avoid
storing CDRs near it?
Thanks.




You can store cdrs INSIDE the sub-woofer if you want to, they are NOT
magnetic media.

As for the 9210e, I have no idea whats causing the vibration. I would
keep using it 'till it quits, or burns become unreliable.


--
Larry Lynch
Mystic, Ct.

The Chronic wrote:
Hi, I have a 3 year old external SCSI burner, an HP 9210e, and it used to be
very quiet, but now it vibrates a lot during recordings, and it's very noisy
as a result, it sounds like a fridge. It could be the media, but the same
media burns fine on my newer Liteon, which has an anti vibration mechanism -
much quieter. Can vibration affect the quality of the burn? I don't have a
program which can test error rates, but music, video, and data CDRs burned
on my noisy HP still appear to be perfect.

Have you checked that the assembly is tight? Unbalance of the drive is
very unlikely, so I suspect something simpler.

Also, I have a subwoofer which is not magnetically shielded; should I avoid
storing CDRs near it?

CDs, home-made or pressed, are insensitive to magnetic fields. I store
CD-Rs directly atop substantial loudspeakers and have had no problems.

Mike
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