A CD drive that old might not support multisession. Multisession was invented after the first CD specification (Orange book?), so the original CD burners didn't have it. Then when drive manufacturers began building drives that could do multisession, each one did it a different way, so multisession CDs didn't work between different drives.n9viw wrote:...I think my CD drive is toast because it's old. It was used when I bought it back in 1998. It was one of the first-gen CD/DVD-ROMs, a Hitachi GD-2000. Frankly, I'm surprised it lasted this long. I'll keep an eye on the PS voltages, in any case...
Multisession was included in the original specification for DVDs, so even the first DVD burners could do multisession, and a multisession DVD created in one machine would work in one from a different manufacturer. Mostly.
About a month ago, Fry's electronics was selling unboxed but brand new ASUS internal SATA DVD burners for $12 if I remember right.