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Old 07-10-2006, 04:03 AM   #1
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cd-rw drive problems with cdrecord - is it the drive?


I was burning a number of CDs with cdrecord when errors suddenly started to appear:

"Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status."

This was on my desktop (Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.17), Samsung drive. I therefore tried to make a disk on my Thinkpad laptop but the same error appeared.

Thinking it might be my version of cdrecord I compiled it myself: same error.

Occasionally, burning a disk DOES work but usually it fails.

I now have no idea what to do. Should I replace the drive on the desktop? But it seems odd that the drives on BOTH machines should fail simultaneously.

Google shows others with similar errors but no clear solutions.
 
Old 07-11-2006, 12:46 AM   #2
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It's unlikely in the extreme that both your laptop CD drive and your desktop CD drive would fail simultaneously. My best guess is that the problem is simply bad media -- the fact that sometimes things work and sometimes things fail would seem to rule out a software problem (if the problem was with the package itself or related to an installation issue presumably it would never work) and if you're using inexpensive, no-name CD blanks, that very likely could be the source of the trouble.

I'd suggest two things: first, get yourself some name-brand, quality CD blanks (such as TDK), and second, select a slow burn speed (eg, 8X or 16X max) regardless of whatever the advertised top speed of your CD drive might be. Good luck with it
 
Old 07-11-2006, 03:50 AM   #3
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You could well be right. They are indeed cheap disks, though with a name (Verbatim). Last night I made 6 disks without problems and had one failure.
 
  


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