From: Foke on
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:46:54 -0400, coltrane <tendengarci(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:

>I know this isn't the place for a dvd problem but I ran out of places to
>seek help.
>I have an asus dvd drive that is supposed to read at 48x. I have been
>importing music cds into itunes and at first the reads were reaching 40x
>which I was quite happy with. I had stopped importing music to copy some
>data from other dvds. One of the dvd was defective and the copy returned
>a checksum error. One note is that during the copy of this disk the copy
>froze for a long time at the point of the error before the copy finally
>returned the error. I then resumed importing music cds into itunes. At
>this point cds were no longer being read at ~40x but now were being read
>at ~7x. I tried to reinstall the driver with no luck. I also tried using
>Nero's DriveSpeed program to set the speed back to 48x but that didn't
>work.
>This is a sata drive if that might have anything to do with anything.
>
>if either you can help or know where I could look for help for help I
>would appreciate the feedback.

Maybe the read heads are just dirty? You could try one of those cleaner
CD's...
From: TJ on
> Maybe the read heads are just dirty? You could try one of those cleaner
> CD's...

those ones with a brush only scratch laser surface and damages it

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TJ :O)