On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 14:18, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2004 04:00 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: > > > Looks like I'm ok with checkdrive anyway. Below is the output > > from a CL run of cdrecord: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -dao -dummy > > -nofix /home/terryg/ISOs/Mandrake92-cd2-ext.i586.iso > > Drive is 12x so I'd burn isos's at 4x.
> Yeah I did that on disk three > > Disk type: unknown dye (reserved id code) > > Manuf. index: -1 > > Manufacturer: unknown (not in table) > > Manufacturer is unknown because of the orange forum embargo. > > As the orange forum likes to get money for recent information, > > it may be that this media does not use illegal manufacturer > > coding. Trying to clear drive status. > > cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper > > status. cdrecord: WARNING: Data may not fit on standard 74min > > There's a lot here I don't think is good. Media quality is > suspect to unusable. Also so is capacity. Your problem is > simple. You're tryin to burn 697 MB's to it. That ain't never > gonna work. "No way, no how" is what cdrecord should'a said ;) Yup! I got three like that the last of my PNYs. > > Plextor's are about the most lenient for marginal media, but it > looks like your drive really hates this one. Seems I read a few > articles about 'illegal media coding' a year or so ago, but for > the life of me I've got CRS about it. What's CRS? > I know there's been many > user complaints about fly by night media for years, that it won't > take the advertised MB's. More like no more than 600 on a > advertised as 650 blank. Yeah I went out and bought some phillips cdr80s 48x and burned one the first time. > IIRC, I've seen this in many places but don't really know what is means? something (I internet relay chat?) > that's mostly what the 'orange > forum embargo' was about. That and licensing, patent violations. > That's academic tho, you need a decent 700MB CDr. > > Come'on over an I'll give you a few ;> I'll see if I transporter is working! ;) -------------------------- Thanks again Terry
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