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
