how long have you had your burner?..... mine is pooping out thesedays after a lot of wear and tear and im getting about the same ratio of coasters too. the other thing i'm guessing at is that maybe cdrecord / xcdroast arent compatible with 52x burners?.... Aaron Trumm wrote: > Hello list! > > I'm having some trouble with burning CD's and having trouble finding sources > of info - I don't know if I'm just not looking very hard or well, or if I'm > really getting stuck > > basically, right now on my system, they end up being coasters about 90% of > the time - I've been trying both cdrecord and xcdroast and both either do > the burn (i've tried burning iso files for backups and also doing audio cds) > or they'll have some sort of error, fixate, and eject the disk early in the > process > > I assume this is an issue with the hardware, I guess - I have an artec 52x > burner > > other than this I don't have all that much info at my fingertips (I'm at the > wrong computer) - but I'm trying to find stuff to start reading, checking, > etc... > > any ideas would be appreciated! thanks! > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Houston Poetry Slam Team > www.houstonpoetryslam.com > NQuit Records > www.nquit.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- |\ _,,,---,,_ ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ HTTP 503: Too Busy |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL .::. www.iriXx.org .::. www.copyleftmedia.org.uk .::. gnupg key ID: AEB7A31E