chaz9496 Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 Sorry to revive an 8 year thread but I'm a new user and just found this site looking for solutions. I bought a MDS-JE510 in August of this year from eBay and it just started giving me a "Protected" message trying to record. I tried others with the same issue. I've never had this issue before with these. They always seem to be a well made unit but of course I've been told otherwise. Anyway, I read thru the replies above and find that this could be a system failure ? I paid $60 for this and they're fairly cheap now days on eBay I'm sure your aware of. I like these units but a service would cost more than just spending more $$ buying another one which I hate to do because I just got this two months ago and only used it to test play parts of a disc and it did record at first with no problems. This is a recent issue. Time to invest in another one ? IMO, I have a feeling that's the answer here. Thanks for any advise. Glad to know that there are people still interested in these to have started a site for us MD lovers, even tho it's been that long since it was created. Thanks again for any help. L.D.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted October 28, 2015 Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 Are you sure it's not to do with the disk itself? I suspect that the 510 doesn't know about protected tracks (from NetMD) but it's always possible that such tracks look strange. Have you:1. used a brand new disk2. formatted a disk with stuff on it and verified whether you can or cannot get the message "blank disc"3. checked the offending disks in some other MD-capable device (portable or deck)?Not expecting anything helpful from answers to above questions, just probing gently to give you a few things to check. It does indeed sound like the microswitches on that model, which are notorious. One of them can easily make it so disks won't eject.I would indeed try buying something more recent, anything with Type-R or Type-S. Not worth fixing the 510, that's for sure. The powersupply is probably salvageable, so in general I would keep it for spare parts, there are many that might come in handy if some other unit fails later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz9496 Posted November 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2015 Sorry about the thread revival. I didn't understand the topic listed above as the thread topic I was inquiring about. lol. Hope I just didn't confuse you. Is there anyway you can bypass the disc record protection circuit ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted November 1, 2015 Report Share Posted November 1, 2015 Next time start a topic yourself.You didn't answer a single one of my questions. Try harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz9496 Posted November 3, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 Next time start a topic yourself.You didn't answer a single one of my questions. Try harder.Don't need to. There's always somebody that has to stur-up trouble on a chat board. I'll take my questions somewhere else. I'm too old for these remarks. Adios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilippeC Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 Adios chaz9496. Never come back here. We are old too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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