On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 02:45, Travis Riddle wrote: > What are the disks you are trying to burn rated at? Perhaps the disks > can't handle the speed of the burner. > > I have burned ISO's on 3 different burners, a Samsung 24x in my 2.2Ghz > Dell laptop, a 24x A-Open in an Intel Celeron 466 and a Samsung 52x in a > AMD 2800+. All CD's burned without problems at max speed and all of the > cd's worked great. As a side note I used Nero 5 and 6 on Win XP on all > three computers. The CD's themselves were either Imation or Maxell. > > If 3 burners across 4 computers have indeed failed, there has to be some > sort of common link that is causing the failure. My guess is the media > itself at this point. > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Chadley Wilson > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 12:13 AM > To: fedora-list > Subject: Re: a lot of problems can be traced to > > On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 17:32, alan wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, amazing powers of observation wrote: > > > > > the burning of the iso image on to cd. checking the midsums and all > i > > > have found it better to burn the cd at ratio 1 to 1. if you go to > fast > > > it blurs the data or looses information. remember burn slow and your > > > install will improve > > > > If that is the case, then you need a new burner. Properly operating > > hardware will not do that. > > > > > Maybe this is a bug I have just installed a brand new 52x writer and if > I cut @ anything over 16x my discs fail, > I swopped the writer three times and the same thing happens, I have > since changed the brand twice and I get the same results on 4 different > systems ranging from my first PC a p3 900 256mb ram > to my new P4 3gig with 1 gig ram. The funny thing is its no linux > because Windoze also does this > > If you say the hardware is not operating properly then there must be a > manufacturing flaw in all these device, which is not impossible. > I will let the manufacturers know (Mitsumi, LG , MSi) > > My 2 cents > Chadley 2 more cents. I've tried several brands of CD-Rs always using cdrecord. IIRC cdrecord -v will rate the CD-R with a letter "grade". The better the grade the more likely the burn will succeed. Currently, I have a stack of blank Verbatim CD-Rs which rate an A (or A+) by cdrecord. I have not generated a single coaster at 40x. Some C rated CD-Rs have consistently failed at speeds as low as 8x (there was no speed rating on the package). The moral of the story: get better CD-Rs. Bob...
