On Thursday 27 July 2006 14:32, Chong Yu Meng wrote: > > I suspect that the problem may have nothing to do with the media or the > way you are executing the growisofs or cdrecord commands. I encountered > the same problems not too long ago, and it turned out to be my DVD drive > that was causing all the problems. I hadn't used the drive in slightly > over a year, and when I tried to burn a DVD on it a couple months ago, I > was getting no medium found, insufficient space error messages, etc. > Almost exactly the same problems you are facing now. I'm not sure if > cleaning the drive is any good. As one list member suggested, as a last > "test" I had taken a hammer to the drive, for wasting more than a week > of my time, :-) I do remember that exchange! You could well be right. It's a long time since I did any burning on that drive. I'll look at replacing it. > the last three DVD disks (coasters now) that I had, and > worst of all, making me doubt the evidence of my eyes. Rather than carry > on experimenting, I'd actually recommend that you buy a new drive -- it > may save your sanity! I know exactly what you mean. If you have two identical drives running identical software, and one of them works, they couldn't be the problem, could they? It has to be a pebcak. Only maybe it isn't. I was beginning to feel desperate about this, yet never thought of this obvious explanation. Anne
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