[KLUG Members] Problems with cdrecord

[Bruce Smith]

> I did try a few other (Ricoh) discs, with the same kind of result.  I've not yet ruled out the possibility that these discs are also bad, though, since I got them for free from a distributor my wife used to work for.  For all I know, they came from bad batches that were returned by customers (although at least some of them seemed to be OK until recently).  I'll go to the store to get another batch just to be sure.

I read once that it's very common for an entire batch of CDR media to be bad.
And I can confirm it, I once ran across a batch of bad media.

> Is there any chance a bad ISO image can cause the same kind of error?

Not unless you're having hard drive problems too.  (or SCSI problems)

Did anything change recently that involved the drive cables?
Did you knock loose an external SCSI cable?  (I did once)

Are ALL of your aborts happening in the exact same location?

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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