Re: [Sheflug] CD writing

[Richard Stevenson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Chris J wrote:

> > I have a CyberDriver CD Writer and I was given a bunch of CDR's to use with it
> > and birtually none of them would work, but the CDRW did. Now I've bought 100
> > CDR's (brown ones) and I've successfully burnt about 13 and there are 5 more
> > which Ive tried to burn on and failed. What is the failure rate for everyone
> > else? The errors I usually get are a failure of power calibration with cdrdao
> > and a no seek complete error.
>
> Next to none here, but also never used cdrdao, preferring cdrecord. I also
> use branded CD's, which can make a difference.

Likewise, I've only ever used cdrecord.  I only ever burned one bad CD -
the guy who gave me the image to burn messed up the file permissions, so
the ISO was bad, not the burn :)  Try burning at a lower speed, and shut
down any applications that move large amounts of data across the bus -
audio/video/streaming/filesharing - or use lots of CPU.  Personally, I
tend to burn (as root) using nice.  Oh, and in a runlevel that won't spawn
X. :)

Cheers

R


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