-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 11:13:35AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 06:37:32PM +0200, Atte Andr? Jensen wrote: > > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) > > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 > > Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0 > > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) > > cmd finished after 12.673s timeout 200s > > wodim: OPC failed. > > During power calibration phase, the drive found that the medium was not > suitable. It claims a problem with the medium, not the drive. It > claims to be within the area of the medium used for power calibration. > > This may be caused by any of the following: > > 1. recent medium (platter) used on a drive that does not support the > medium, (e.g. due to drive being too old, or lacking firmware support, > or you purchased medium from shop that is incompatible by design), > > 2. optical obstruction (dirt) on the medium in that area, try another > one, ... something like this has happened to me with fibre or fluff > caught in the hub, > > 3. laser has deteriorated beyond the point that will write with that > type of medium, try another type of medium. > It's very likely #1. I had the exact same problem. Those goddamned new "52X!!" media are useless on my old drive. I can't find "older/slower" media for sale anymore either. Planned obsolescence, probably. Evil. - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGjxOWe8HF+6xeOIcRAnVbAJ9cdeDdwl6lr6F53Z/pA1GGJXV3BwCgyt/K KYzDLFxi+6kOjoRPLoAKhOE= =4xiz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
