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CRX160E User's Guide
Troubleshooting
This chapter discusses the basics of troubleshooting the
CRX160E.
A few words about CD-ROMs
The laser in a CD reads the difference in reflectivity from
one spot to the next. This difference in reflectivity is simply
created from a difference in the depth of pits either burned
or stamped into the CD-ROM Media.
Large production runs of CDs are stamped to create the
pits. The Sony CRX160E burns recordable CD media, or
alters the state of the substance within CD-RW media to
change its reflectivity by means of a finely controlled laser
beam
The pits that the laser of the CD reader senses are either the
one or the zero bits that are interpreted as data, music, or
photographs depending on the format with which the disc
is recorded. The CD is covered in a transparent shield that
the laser can read through or burn through. Scratches,
smudges, or particles on the bottom read/write surface can
impede the functioning of your CD-RW, CD-R or CD-ROM
device.
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