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Originally Posted by Zyphon
The Pioneer A05 sucks and had some bad writeups especially with it being fussy about the CD-R's it would read but im not sure if this was cured with a firmware update.
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I had some problems with 90 minute CDs (sometimes it reads them perfectly, sometimes it doesn't even like to read the TOC, but never in between) but since neither my car stereo nor my standalone DVD player like 90 minute discs this isn't a problem for me. But the Pioneer has one advantage over my LG drive: it reads the pregap of track 1 without problems (this helps with some early CD-Extra discs that stored the data section in the pregap for the first track instead of in the second session).
You could be thinking of the A04 (or maybe it was the A03), which could destroy itself using certain types of media under very early revisions of the firmware.