Has anyone found a brand of the little "business card" CD-R blanks which works with a Plextor 12/10/32 burner? I've tried two brands (cdrecord reads out "King Pro Mediatek Inc." for one and "Lead Data" for the other). My Plextor burner won't accept either one - cdrecord reports an I/O error (seek failure) during the OPC command (or, if I disable the OPC, during the attempt to start writing track 1). The burn doesn't even start... the discs remain blank. I asked Plextor about this, and was told that this burner should accept the mini discs, and to try a different brand. I tried burning several of these discs on an HP burner, using two different versions of the LinuxCare "bootable business card" (a Linux rescue kit). The burns of the older 1.2 version were successful. A burn of the newer 1.5 version (a few MB larger) succeeded on the Link Pro Mediatek blank, and failed during fixation on the Lead Data blank (the leadout was written, but the leadin/TOC was not). My guess is that the manufacturers of these discs are actually overstating the useful capacity of the disc somewhat. If you try to burn the full specified capacity of the disc plus the standard leadout, the track "falls off the edge" of the disc. This would account for the fixation failure on the Lead Data disc. It might, I think, also account for the refusal of the Plextor drives to burn these discs at all. I have a hunch that the Plextor firmware is trying to perform a sanity check on the disc... it's seeking out to where it expects the worst-case leadout area to end, isn't able to find it, and reports a failure. Plextor has a policy of not supporting overburning (as it's outside of the standard). So - has anyone found a source for a type of these blanks which actually burn reliably in a Plextor? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
