Yeah, the "resistive connection" type failure is possible, but the concidence with running an unknown CD is too much for me.
There was a copy protection scheme introduced in early 2004 (not picked up by major CD manufactures due to the screams in the computer and consumer advocate communities) that would cause damage on some CD burners if you even played the CD in the drive, let alone tried to copy one. It forced a seek to an invalid track. Most CD players would simply refuse to go there, but a big chunk of CD burners will try going to even invalid tracks. It's tied to the "overburn" capabilities of some drives. That's why I avoid overburning. It's also why I almost never put a CD into my burner unless it's a blank I'm going to burn to.
That's good to know....
Is to isolate the individual drived from each other if the cable thing does not do the trick. I doubt both are screwed up, but they are likely master/slave daisy chained. One would possibly get the other.
Is there any kind of a tutorial document on this problem that we could post here on FR?
I put a music CD that came with a book into my computer last night, played, and now my computer won't recognize either my CD or my CD writer.