Re: CDROM burning problem - new approach
On 12/28/2010 05:26 PM, Ken Heard wrote:
Since I have two DVD/CD rewritable drive units in two different boxes,
it occurred to me to swap the two and see what would happen. Here is
the result:
ken@SOL:~/downloads$ wodim -v speed=2 dev=/dev/hda
...
wodim: fifo had 10699 puts and 10699 gets.
wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 10417 times full, min fill was 97%.
ken@SOL:~/downloads$
So, as can be seen, with the replacement drive unit everything was
working as it should. The question now is why one drive would work but
not the other.
...
I would still like to know why the Sony drive would not write (it did
read) in the Gigabyte box and fix it if possible. Could it be a
firmware problem?
Google is your friend here, but by my experience, most likely not.
This is an obvious hardware problem. It is a common failure mode for a
drive to stop burning or burn intermittently and continue to otherwise
work. Also common is for burnable media to go bad, or a particular
combination of drive and CD media to not work.
It would be interesting for you to try burning from the other computer
with the non-working drive, and to try new media of a different brand.
At least here in the US, a new drive costs roughly twice a smaller pack
of CDRs. In the interest of time and cost, it may be easier to replace
the drive altogether.
Chance
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