Not exactly. The old optics and laser diodes have a lot of trouble I find with burned media as opposed to pressed discs. You may find a lot of the time that a disc will simply be rejected by the drive because it has no clue what to do. A lot of Toshiba's SCSI CD drives have this problem.

The CD SC on the price:useability ratio is awful. Unless you badly want the drive you're better off using anything else out there because it's dreadfully slow and barely capable of handling classic games such as Myst.