On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: > 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. hmmm ... i specifically noticed that that value in a previous failed run was only 4. and i also specifically tried to do a burn at speed=1, and got the same failure. curiouser and curiouser. rday
