Can't find my original thread re: this problem, but this is close. I was having all sorts of errors trying to burn 8x media @ 8x. The burn would be physically bad, with blank bands, scorches, etc. Below that, they were fine, and 16x media worked @ 16x. I thought I'd tried everything, different media, burners, boxes, even distros.
I noticed my BIOS would complain at boot that the IDE cable for the burner was only 40-wire. Since I had almost none of this trouble on the windows side (except 16x media @ 16x speed), I disregarded it. But lo and behold, when I switched to an 80-wire cable, all the problems seem to have vanished. I'm 3 for 3 in error-free burns at intended speeds thus far. -- http://www.livejournal.com/users/darkaudit/
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