mine's real brand spankin' new > 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?.... now this is an interesting theory - ties into the other guy's suggestion of burning slower. I'd bet that would work if not being compatible with 52x was the problem I did notice stuff like, on xcdroast, it would go to write the first track and just apparentely haul ass - it would report that it was burning at like 243x - like WHOA slow down there cheeko! maybe forcing a certain speed (slower than 52x) would prevent this from happening
