To ORAC: The second system where I tried the drive has never had any CD-RW drive or software. Still problems in that system.
One of the CD drives failed in a system which had never had a CD writer.
This system, where one of the drives failed, has the terrible NTI CD-Maker 2000 Plus software.
I'll look into flashing the software in the drives, though I've about decided to not waste any more time on them.
Thanks to TCS and Naples for pointing at places to order drives.
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