On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:36, Aaron Trumm wrote: > 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 > Aaron, I don't burn much on Linux jsut because the tools seem much more difficult to use, but on Windows I have a 42x CD and I cannot reliably burn much above 30x. Mark
