"cdrecord" fails consistently with scsi errors

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 05:30, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   for the first time in a while, i wanted to burn a few CDs (FC2-test1,
> > no big surprise there).  i'm running FC1, and booting *without* the SCSI
> > emulation feature on my inspiron 8100 with built-in ATAPI CD-RW.
> [snip]
> > ATIP info from disk:
> >   Indicated writing power: 5
> [snip]
> > write track data: error after 149323776 bytes
> > cdrecord: A write error occured.
> > cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.
> > Writing  time:  256.470s
> > Average write speed  16.8x.
> [snip]
> > the failure isn't always at the same place, and i've never had problems
> > with burning before.  any thoughts?  is it possible the burner is bad?
> > i can't believe all of these CDs were flawed somehow.
> 
> Robert,
> It appears your drive is trying to record at 16x to a CD-R rated at only
> 5x. Try adding speed=4 to your command line. Slow burns sometimes
> produce fewer coasters.

hmmm ... i specifically noticed that that value in a previous failed run
was only 4.  and i also specifically tried to do a burn at speed=1, and
got the same failure.  curiouser and curiouser.

rday