Re: "cdrecord" fails consistently with scsi errors

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On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 05:30, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   for the first time in a while, i wanted to burn a few CDs (FC2-test1,
> no big surprise there).  i'm running FC1, and booting *without* the SCSI
> emulation feature on my inspiron 8100 with built-in ATAPI CD-RW.
[snip]
> ATIP info from disk:
>   Indicated writing power: 5
[snip]
> write track data: error after 149323776 bytes
> cdrecord: A write error occured.
> cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
> Writing  time:  256.470s
> Average write speed  16.8x.
[snip]
> the failure isn't always at the same place, and i've never had problems
> with burning before.  any thoughts?  is it possible the burner is bad?
> i can't believe all of these CDs were flawed somehow.

Robert,
It appears your drive is trying to record at 16x to a CD-R rated at only
5x. Try adding speed=4 to your command line. Slow burns sometimes
produce fewer coasters.
--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL




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