the other day i was trying to burn a cd and my 3550 wouldn’t recognize it… the light comes on and i hear click–click–click but after about 30 seconds it stops and says ‘no disc.’ i later confirmed that it does that with any cd and dvd regardless if its recordable or not. i have tried different firmwares for it and it does not seem to help.
now none of my 3 burners work at all… 
Clean the drive and test it in another computer, maybe also replace the ide cable.
i switched the burners from my two computers, now both seem to be working fine. strange that they stopped working on the original computers…
Maybe the PSU on compi 1 is going to die.
wait, the [I]what?[/I]
PSU = power supply unit.
hmm… well i guess i’ll know if the new burner stops working again