From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Nov 12 19: 7:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from shrubbery.satx.bikeworld.net (shrubbery.satx.bikeworld.net [209.142.99.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA6837B4C5; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:07:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from cattleguard.bikeworld.net ([209.142.101.34] helo=roscoe.ah.bikeworld.net ident=chris) by shrubbery.satx.bikeworld.net with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13v9xG-000FBa-00; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:06:47 -0600 Received: from roscoe.ah.bikeworld.net ([10.0.0.2] ident=root) by roscoe.ah.bikeworld.net with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13v9xa-000NeR-00; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:07:06 -0600 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:07:06 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Snell X-Sender: chris@roscoe.ah.bikeworld.net To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my first coaster with cdrecord/FreeBSD :-( In-Reply-To: <200011130258.eAD2weS69470@grumpy.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, David Kelly wrote: > In previous employment we were going thru about 500 CD-R blanks/year. > One bad out of 12 isn't good, but also isn't a large enough sample size > to say. Some lots of blanks are simply lemons. Its not as if they can > do 100% testing from the factory. :-) Also, check to see if your CD-R blank's rated speed (8x, 10x, etc) matches up with the speed that your burner burns at. I ruined a stack of good blanks before I realized that I was attempting to burn 8x blanks at 10x. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message