Thanks for the data guys!

I have a 100% fail rate with my Yamaha 4416 and Imation media. I thought
it might be a software problem because of the error messages but it's
probably just something here. I just burned some Maxells with no problem.

Maybe it's time to get a faster burner than a 4x, too. :)

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:31:17AM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>   | On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>   |
>   | > I've just succeeded in making 10 consecutive coasters with my current
>   | > system with a Yamaha 4416 CD burner and Imation blanks. I think it might
>   | > be drive/media problems, but I can't be sure. It locks my system up at
>   | > times, and mostly just locks up the drive.
>   |
>   | I haven't tried a super-recent kernel, but I have recoifing working w/ a
>   | Sony burner. Did you try reducing the record speed? I got errors at 10x,
>   | but 4x was fine (even though the media are rated 10x).
>
> I've been burning at 12x using -current from a couple of days ago to a
> 12x burner & 12x media.  It works generally ok, although I get some
> disks that don't work wonderfully on my test machines (these are just
> test disks for multiboot NetBSD cds).
>
> Luke.
>

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