Pinnacle Optical Drives

[Doug Phillipson 5-0134]

Does anyone have any experience with Pinnacle Optical drives in so far as
their reliability. I have a REO 1300 and have found it to be unreliable. I
get lots of errors like:

reo1:  rezero failed
reo1a:  read retry
       sense key(0x0): no sense
reo1a:  read retry
       sense key(0x0): no sense
reo1a:  read retry
       sense key(0x0): no sense
reo1a:  read retry,  block 210368
       sense key(0x4): hardware error,  error code(0x2): No ESDI command complete

And "newfs" fails frequently. Please Email me your experiences and I will
post a summary.

Douglas Phillipson (EG&G)