From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Nov 12 20:24:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E4D237B479; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 20:24:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.3.185.85]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001113042306.GEQA26316.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 20:23:06 -0800 Message-ID: <3A0F6C59.7FED129E@home.com> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:21:45 -0500 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graham Guttocks Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my first coaster with cdrecord/FreeBSD :-( References: <20001113021031.75150.qmail@web10308.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Graham Guttocks wrote: > > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > > This looks like a bad block on the CD. Thus the reason it worked when you > > tried again with a new CD. (Which is probably the right approach to take > > to fix the problem.) > > Uhm, ok. I guess I find this hard to swallow since this was a high-quality > CD-R, brand-new from its case. Be sure to actually visually inspect your brand-new-from-the-case CDRs. I find that roughly 1 in 10 CDRs have a few bits of plastic "dust" on them, even with quality brands. The bits are easily blown off, but some of the pieces are probably big enough (relative to the tiny laser beam) to ruin a sector of the disk if you don't bother to remove them... Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message