Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:03:11 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ultra Speed CD-RW media and cdrecord Message-ID: <20050105050310.GA43850@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20050105041712.GA18285@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050105033712.GA43732@polands.org> <20050105041712.GA18285@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:17:12PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 04), Doug Poland said: > > My son gave me a package of Memorex Ultra Speed CD-RW blanks for > > Christmas. I was going to burn an ISO on my 5.3-STABLE system but > > ran into a brick wall. > > > > cdrecord tells me that it's "Trying to use ultra high speed medium on > > improper writer." I've used "MultiSpeed 1x2x4x" media and "1x-4x > > Compatible" media in the past with no problems. > > From a quick scan of the cdrecord source and some searches, it looks > like Ultra Speed media require write speeds of 16x or faster, but your > 2100S can only write CD-RW media at 10x (it can do CD-R's at 16x). You > can use the -force flag to make cdrecord write to the disks, but no > guarantees. It'd be nice if cdrecrd's error message printed the limits > of drive and media instead of just saying that something's "improper" :) > Thanks for the help. I tried the -force switch and got lots of errors and the disk didn't burn. On a positive note, I suppose it's time for a new CD writer! -- Regards, Doug
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