From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Nov 14 5:26:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D6E37B479 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 05:26:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA88024; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:25:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karelj) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:25:43 +0100 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" To: Graham Guttocks Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my first coaster with cdrecord/FreeBSD :-( Message-ID: <20001114142543.A87992@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> Reply-To: K.J.Bosschaart@wtb.tue.nl References: <20001113021031.75150.qmail@web10308.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20001113021031.75150.qmail@web10308.mail.yahoo.com>; from graham_guttocks@yahoo.co.nz on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:10:31PM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 03:10:31PM +1300, 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. > You might want to look up http://www.plextor.be/English/technical/cdrmedia.html and see if your medium is listed as 'recommended'. I had trouble with high quality CD's on a 4/2/20 and it appeared not to be listed. Using recommended ones, I had remarkably few problems writing CD's. As others have mentioned, always check the new CD on particles on the surface, and remove them carefully if needed. Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message