On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 2:30 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > Hi, list. > > FWIW - just in case anybody else has a similar problem: > > CD-writer writes under Windows OK > Writes to CD-RW with cdrecord (and GUIs based on cdrecord) but will > *NOT*, absolutely *NOT*, write CD-Rs. > > > DIAGNOSIS: > If you have a reasonably modern, i.e. high-speed writer it may > experience problems writing CD-Rs at *LOW* speed and fail with > errors: "OPC failed ...."."Sense Code: Power calibration area > error...." This doesn't happen with CD-RWs. > > SOLUTION: > Change cdrecord speed=2(say) to ...speed=12 (for example) for > CD-Rs. > > Many thanks to a lot of people, particularly John Richard Smith, > who kept plugging and helped me plug, away at the problem to the > end. > > DougB
Could you add it to the HardwareIssues/Sound section, please, Douglas? :-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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